Archive for the ‘Urology / Nephrology’ Category
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Fresenius Medical Care North America, operator of the nation's leading network of dialysis clinics, announced the opening of Fresenius Medical Care Kapahulu, a new advanced dialysis treatment center. The Medicare-certified facility is located at 750 Palani Avenue, ten minutes from Waikiki Beach. For more information on the clinic, which is ...
Posted in Urology / Nephrology | No Comments »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Repros Therapeutics Inc. (NasdaqGM:RPRX) announced that the Company's Investigational New Drug application for the study of Proellex® in the treatment of anemia associated with uterine fibroids has become effective. The Company will open the IND with two identical registration quality Phase III studies. The work has been awarded to an ...
Posted in Urology / Nephrology | No Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Cancer drug developer Antisoma plc (LSE: ASM; USOTC: ATSMY) announces the entry of AS1409 into clinical trials. A phase I trial has started in patients with renal cancer and melanoma.
The trial has two parts. In the first, successive cohorts of patients will receive increasing doses of AS1409. This will continue ...
Posted in Urology / Nephrology | No Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
TORISELTM (temsirolimus), a breakthrough therapy shown to extend median overall survival of patients with metastatic (advanced) renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common form of kidney cancer,1,2 has been approved by Health Canada. TORISEL, which received a priority review from Health Canada, works differently than other cancer therapies. TORISEL is ...
Posted in Urology / Nephrology | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
According to a recent article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, different treatments for acute kidney failure lead to nearly the same mortality rate and other similar clinical outcomes. The meta-analysis was performed by Neesh Pannu of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and colleagues.
The researchers focused ...
Posted in Urology / Nephrology | No Comments »
Monday, February 18th, 2008
UroToday.com - Dr. Sanda reported on the PROSTQA, which assesses the QOL outcomes for patients treated with RP, XRT and brachytherapy. Sexual, urinary, bowel, and vitality data were collected and analyzed. The study was not randomized and the HRQOL was assessed within groups. Sexual function dropped most for RP patients, ...
Posted in Urology / Nephrology | No Comments »
Monday, February 18th, 2008
UroToday.com - Dr. Sandler reported on a secondary analysis of RTOG 85-31, in which the patients who got longer duration of ADT had better survival. In RTOG 9202, 1,554 men with T3 disease had either ADT for a mean of 28 months vs. short term ADT and there was a ...
Posted in Urology / Nephrology | No Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
UroToday.com -Stone formation on the intravesical portion of the sling is very rare. Recognition of bladder perforation during the continence procedure and correct re-insertion of the sling is the best way to avoid such a complication. However, inadvertently submucosally placed tapes, which can be missed on cystoscopy, may also predispose ...
Posted in Urology / Nephrology | No Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
UroToday.com - In this article published in the November issue of the International Journal of Urology, (Sakakibara and) colleagues reported a case of a 76-year-old man who, because of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder, underwent orthotopic ileal neobladder, and developed severe nocturnal enuresis. They performed videomanometry in the ileal ...
Posted in Urology / Nephrology | No Comments »
