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If you are a man with lower urinary tract symptoms, a numerical system is used to track how your symptoms are doing. The most commonly used system is the AUA Symptom Score. Please download a copy of the AUA Symptom Score Worksheet, and see for yourself how [read more…]
Sleeping Badly May Worsen Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
A Boston Area study looked at 1610 men and 2535 women who completed a questionnaire asking them about their lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and other factors, including the amount and quality of sleep they get each night. Lower urinary tract symptoms include nocturia, frequency and urgency. The researchers looked at short sleep [read more…]
Men on ADT do worse when obese
Drs. Keto and Freedland from Duke University studied obesity in men with treated prostate cancer. Men who are on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for recurrent prostate cancer after prostatectomy do worse on the therapy when obese compared to men who are not obese. They used the SEARCH database compiled over 21 years from [read more…]
Hygienic Dress Code Law in New York
In New York a law is being debated that would require that physicians remove wristwatches, neckties and even their long-sleeved white coats when seeing patients in order to reduce the number of health care associated infections. The law would required us to be “bare below the elbow” in addition to all of the usual [read more…]