Urology Perspective and Journal Articles

• Early Mortality in ICI-Treated Cancers in Routine Practice A better understanding of the predictors of early mortality among cancer patients treated with ICIs could help guide treatment selection.
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute, September 29, 2023
• Older Patients With Asymptomatic Primary Hyperparathyroidism When should surgery be considered for older patients with primary hyperparathyroidism who are asymptomatic? Is it time to re-evaluate the current guidelines?
  Journal of the Endocrine Society, September 29, 2023
• How Baseball Led Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to His AFib Diagnosis It wasn’t like one of basketball’s greatest to feel lightheaded, tired, and short of breath. But did he brush off these serious cardiovascular symptoms?
  WebMD, September 28, 2023
• Medscape Young Physician Compensation Report 2023 Doctors younger than 40 years enjoyed healthy pay increases on average in 2022. They reveal how salary gains affected their job satisfaction as well as the gender pay gap.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 26, 2023
• Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines: To PSA or Not to PSA As primary care physicians, a large part of our role is to prevent or detect cancers early. Patients look to us for this guidance.
  MDedge, September 26, 2023
• Healthcare Workers More Likely to Die by Suicide   Who has the highest suicide rate among all healthcare provider types? A new study answers this question.
  Medscape, September 26, 2023
• COVID, Flu, RSV: How the Tripledemic Impacts Your Practice   This fall's ‘tripledemic’ is already filling offices with COVID-19, flu and RSV patients. Renowned expert Dr. Eric Topol discusses the vaccine landscape to help you tackle your patients' questions.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 21, 2023
• Love and Sex in the Nursing Home? Ethicist Says, 'Why Not?'   Art Caplan, PhD, discusses when to intervene and when to stay out of it regarding sexual relationships in a nursing home.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, September 21, 2023
• Infographic: Residents' Bank Accounts Fatten After Lean Years Medical residents report on their average compensation, what they earn at different stages of residency, how much pay they think they deserve, and how much student loan debt they carry.
  Medscape, September 21, 2023
• Italy's Resilience Plan for Healthcare Is Falling Apart A plan intended to bolster Italy's healthcare system immediately attracted critics and is now the target of funding cuts.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 21, 2023
• Episode 4: New Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer Therapies   Drs Sandhya Srinivas and Oliver Sartor discuss the VISION study, new therapies for patients with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer, and PSMA biomarker-based imaging.
  Medscape, September 21, 2023
• Technologic Advances in Robotic Nephron Sparing Surgery Recent advances have led to new technologies and novel imaging techniques for nephron sparing surgery. Find out what's new.
  Translational Andrology and Urology, September 21, 2023
• The Complexity of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause This study highlights the complexity of genitourinary syndrome of menopause symptoms in terms of location, quantity, severity, and frequency,
  Menopause, September 21, 2023
• Reignite Professional Passion Through Lifestyle Medicine In this age of ubiquitous burnout in the health professions, lifestyle medicine fosters clinician healing.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 20, 2023
• Laboratory Testing: No Doctor Required?   This week, Dr F. Perry Wilson reveals some of the downstream consequences of the recent explosion in direct-to-consumer lab testing.
  Medscape, September 19, 2023
• Cervical Cancer Screening in Menopause: When Is It Safe to Exit? Controversy persists over when it is safe to cease cervical cancer screening in postmenopausal women. This review examines considerations for postmenopausal women as well as existing guidelines.
  Menopause, September 14, 2023
• Don't Call Them 'Private Parts'   Sexual-medicine clinician Dr Rachel Rubin uses frank descriptions of anatomy and physiology to help patients improve their sexual health.
  Medscape Urology, September 13, 2023
• Medscape Resident Salary & Debt Report 2023 Medical residents weigh in on their compensation and its fairness, work benefits, school debt load, work weeks, and other aspects of their training lives.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 13, 2023
• 25 Once-in-a-Lifetime Bucket List Vacations Many are deciding that now's the time to visit some far-off amazing places for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We offer some options to help you choose your dream vacation.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 13, 2023
• Perioperative Management of Patients Exposed to Psychostimulants Patients exposed to psychostimulants present a variety of perioperative clinical challenges. Review the implications for the anesthesiologist in this article.
  Anesthesia & Analgesia, September 13, 2023