Reports
The following list of reports reflects the latest in findings and outcomes in medical research as presented at major medical meetings and published peer-reviewed medical journals. In this section you can view reports from important congresses as well as summaries of some recently published journal articles. Please let us know if you have a particular area of interest you would like to see covered.
PRIORITY PRESS - Primary Care Today
Outgrowing Old Attitudes and Approaches to Nocturnal Enuresis
Toronto, Ontario / May 7-9, 2009
Toronto - Nocturnal enuresis is the frequent involuntary discharge of urine during sleep in children who have reached an age at which bladder control is expected. It is a condition that frustrates parents and can engender low self-esteem...
PRIORITY PRESS - 104th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Society
Relearning and Refining the Lessons from the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial
Chicago, Illinois / April 25-30, 2009
Chicago - Few clinical trials have met with such diverse reactions as those that followed the findings of the PCPT (Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial). The trial represented an unprecedented triumph in cancer prevention, demonstrating a 25%...
PRIORITY PRESS - 104th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association
Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: From Hormonal Agonism to Antagonism
Chicago, Illinois / April 25-30, 2009
Chicago - Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has become an integral component of treatment for many patients with hormone-sensitive advanced prostate cancer. Multiple studies have shown that ADT blunts the progression of prostate cancer,...
PRIORITY PRESS - 104th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association
New Approaches to the Management of Male LUTS
Chicago, Illinois / April 25-30, 2009
Chicago - Overactive bladder (OAB) has historically been underrecognized in men as a contributor to lower urinary tract symptoms, with most symptoms being attributed primarily to benign prostatic hyperplasia. A new survey shows the...
PRIORITY PRESS - 104th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association
The Challenge of Urgency: Recent Advances in Recognizing and Treating Overactive Bladder
Chicago, Illinois / April 25-30, 2009
Chicago - Overactive bladder (OAB) comprises a constellation of lower urinary tract symptoms that include frequency and urgency, with or without urinary incontinence. An estimated 12% to 18% of Canadians have OAB, and that figure may...
PRIORITY PRESS - 24th Annual Congress of the European Association of Urology
Managing Severely Symptomatic Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: More from CombAT
Stockholm, Sweden / March 17-21, 2009
Stockholm - One consequence of the dramatic growth in the world’s elderly population today is a potentially daunting increase in the number of men who will require treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms associated with benign prostatic...
MEDI-NEWS Based on 2009 ASCO/AUA Guideline
Prostate Cancer Prevention with 5-alpha Reductase Inhibitors: Clinical Guideline and Recommendations
March 2009
For many types of cancer, prevention remains a challenge because of an incomplete understanding of potentially modifiable risk factors. With respect to prostate cancer, an opportunity for chemoprevention arose from the recognition that...
PRIORITY PRESS - 9th Annual Society of Urologic Oncology Winter Meeting
Advances in Androgen-deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer
Bethesda, Maryland / December 4-6, 2008
In prostate cancer patients requiring androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT), gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists achieve androgen suppression more rapidly and without the testosterone surge and microsurge that accompany...
PRIORITY PRESS - 38th Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society
Issues in Overactive Bladder Therapy: Targeting the Urgency Driver
Cairo, Egypt / October 20-24, 2008
According to Prof. Linda Cardozo, King’s College Hospital, London, UK, urgency including urgency bother is the fundamental symptom of overactive bladder (OAB), driving all other OAB symptoms directly or indirectly. The double-blind...