Male Circumcision Protects Against HIV Infection
Thursday, 27 October 2005 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Circumcising adult men reduces their risk of HIV infection, investigators in France and
South Africa report.
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Urine Collection Method In Febrile Infants Not Determined By Probability Of UTI
Thursday, 20 October 2005 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has found the method a physician uses for collecting urine from febrile infants
may depend more on his or her age than on relevant clinical factors.
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Antibiotic Resistance Patterns In Children Hospitalized For Urinary Tract Infections
Monday, 17 October 2005 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - There is limited information on bacterial resistance to commonly prescribed intravenous antibiotics or on the risk factors for increased resistance in children admitted to the hospital with urinary tract infections (UTIs).
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Addition Of Clonidine And Fentanyl: Comparison Between Three Different Regional Anesthetic Techniques In Circumcision
Friday, 14 October 2005 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Regional anesthetics seem to be more effective than systemic opioids for alleviating postcircumcision pain.
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Impact Of Pretransplant Dialysis On Early Graft Function In Pediatric Kidney Recipients
Thursday, 13 October 2005 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Fontana et al report on the impact of dialysis performed pretransplant on early kidney graft function.
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Consistency of Urodynamic Parameters in Children with Detrusor Instability: How Many Times Should the Bladder Be Filled?
Thursday, 13 October 2005 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Cyclical bladder views for voiding cystourethrograms are known to be helpful for establishing difficult diagnoses such as intermittent reflux.
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Recent Review Examines Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans In Boys
Wednesday, 12 October 2005 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans (BXO) is a chronic dermatitis of unknown etiology that occurs on the penile skin.
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Ultrasound Plus Alpha-Fetoprotein Best For Neural Tube Defect Screening
Tuesday, 11 October 2005 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Combining second-trimester ultrasonography with maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (MSAFP) screening is likely to detect more cases of neural tube defects (NTDs) than MSAFP alone, according to results of a retrospective study.
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Detection Of Polyomavirus BK And JC In Children With Kidney Diseases And Renal Transplant Recipients
Monday, 10 October 2005 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Immunosuppression is one of the foundations of organ transplantation, although it has its own inherent problems such as susceptibility to infection.
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AAP 2005 - Oral Session: Urology - Kidney I
Monday, 10 October 2005 The first presentation by Kaneyama et al from Tokyo, Japan was to measure anatomical parameters using MR urography (MRU) images to create a pelvic index ratio (PIR).
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AAP 2005 - Oral Session: Urology - Bladder I
Monday, 10 October 2005 The first abstract in this session by the group from the Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA was to investigate the EGF receptor (EGFR) signaling and its modulation to identify novel therapeutic strategies.
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AAP 2005 - Oral Session: Urology - Vesicoureteral Reflux I
Monday, 10 October 2005 The first abstract of this session by McMillan et al from Iowa City, IA, USA evaluated potential predictive factors of VUR resolution besides the grade.
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AAP 2005 - Oral Session: Urology ? Informatics
Monday, 10 October 2005 The first abstract by Snow and Owen from Salt Lake City, UT, USA looked at academic productivity changes over a decade within the AAP section on urology.
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AAP 2005 - Oral Session: Urology - Genitalia
Monday, 10 October 2005 Claude A Kollin et al performed a randomized control trial of the effect of orchiopexy at 9 months of age on testicular growth from birth to 2 years old.
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AAP 2005 - Urology - Voiding Dysfunction
Monday, 10 October 2005 The first abstract of this session by Kiddoo et al from the Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA characterized the impact of Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), the neurohormone that initiates the endocrine limb of the stress response, and arousal state on rat urodynamics.
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