October 24, 2006 -- Compared with clean intermittent self-catheterization after urogynecologic surgery, suprapubic catheterization results in a similar risk of urinary tract infection (UTI) but is ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 75 years old and in very good health. I run five days a week and work out three. I was getting up six times a night or more to go to the bathroom. I went to the urologist, who ...

A research team has developed a mechanism of a self-propelled catheter capable of generating peristaltic motion just like an earthworm by applying pneumatic pressure inside only one tube. The goal is ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID)’s Medicare Assistance Program (MAP) is warning about rising cases of Medicare fraud across the state, including beneficiaries being ...

Dear Dr. Roach: For quite some time now, I've been suffering from a persistent urinary tract infection, accompanied by an elevated PSA. This resulted in a biopsy, which was positive for early-stage ...

For children with neurogenic bladder, self-catheterization is associated with lower adherence to clean intermittent catheterization (CIC), according to a study recently published in the Journal of ...

“Building consistency and reproducibility into [surgical] procedures generally improves [patient] outcomes,” heart surgeon and researcher Michael Reardon of Houston Methodist Hospital who was not ...

Biopsies of pulmonary lesions are essential for increasing the accuracy of diagnosis and treatment for respiratory illnesses such as lung cancer. Currently, manual biopsies are performed via ...