The latest issue of PLOS ONE reported that researchers may have found a method to assess the women at risk for developing a urinary tract infection (UTI) following pelvic-floor surgery. Urinary tract infections (UTI), the most common type of bacterial infection, have estimated treatments costs exceeding USD$1 billion a year in the United States alone. […]
Archives for 2014
Healthy Lifestyles and Chronic Kidney Disease Outcomes
Data suggests that four healthy behaviours were associated with a 68% decreased risk of all- cause mortality. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who have a healthy lifestyle has been linked to lower risks of heart attack, stroke, and other ailments in the general population, but also raised some new questions. Ana C. Ricardo, MD, […]
Novel Peyronie’s Disease Treatment Shows Efficacy
Spanish researchers reported in The Journal of Sexual Medicine that penile traction therapy (PTT) is an effective treatment for the acute phase of Peyronie’s disease (PD). About 55 patients who underwent PTT, a novel penile extender device therapy, were studied for 6 months for acute phase (AP) of Peyronie’s by Juan Martinez-Salamanca, MD, PhD, of […]
Tobacco Use and Bladder Cancer
According to a study published in Cancer, patients with bladder cancer, smoking status and primary source of information correlate with awareness of the harms of tobacco use. Jeffrey C. Basset, M.D., M.P.H., from the University of California in Los Angeles, and colleagues surveyed a stratified, random sample of bladder cancer survivors about tobacco use, risk […]
12 Natural Ways to Make Healthy Sperm
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine have released a recent study done on couples, that for about 30 percent of them, the cause of infertility has something to do with the male’s health. The men may have normal semen analysis results; unfortunately, there are still factors that are affecting the chances of getting couples pregnant. […]
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