UROLOGY NEWS

Changing jobs and locations frequently can often be a sign of incompetence and poor performance. Can this physician be restrained, or at least retrained?
Medscape Internal Medicine

Renal impairment reduces the specificity of D-dimer testing for pulmonary embolism (PE), clinicians from the Netherlands have observed.
Reuters Health Information

Guaranteed issue, community rating, and individual mandate: What do these terms mean in the context of healthcare reform? What do they mean for you? David M. Brown, MD, explains in this video blog.
Medscape Ophthalmology

Chronic renal disease appears to reduce platelet responsiveness to clopidogrel, according to a Korean research team.
Reuters Health Information

Black men with elevated low density lipoprotein (LDL) levels face an increased risk of positive prostate biopsy, according to a report in the November issue of The Journal of Urology.
Reuters Health Information

Guidelines on darbepoetin treatment for renal anemia must be changed immediately.
Faculty of 1000 Medicine

A review provides recommendations for primary care clinicians regarding the diagnosis and treatment of nephrotic syndrome in adults.
Medscape Medical News

What are the most effective and most common drugs used to prevent infection prior to urologic procedures?
Urologic Nursing

These antiviral agents are effective for CMV infection, especially following pediatric organ transplantation, but certain precautions must be followed.
Pediatric Pharmacotherapy

Multilocular cyst of the kidney is a rare pathologic entity. It may not be established preoperatively, but other methods may aid in its diagnosis.
Journal of Medical Case Reports