Archive for the ‘General Information’ Category

Vitamin D May Prevent Prostate Cancer

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

UPI released an article on May 15, 2008 in which results from a recent study done at the University of Rochester Medical Center in which research leader Yi-Fen Lee states that not only can vitamin D be used as a therapy for prostate cancer, it is also a cancer preventative. It ...

Overuse of Antibiotics in Treatment of Prostatitis

Monday, May 19th, 2008

In an article published May 14, 2008 on www.UroToday.com from the Center for Chronic Disease outcomes Research, Veterans Affairs medical Center, Minneapolis, MN wherein they explore the amount of antibiotics prescribed for men with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS). The annual prevalence of chronic pelvic pain syndrome was 0.5%. Prescriptions for ...

Prostatitis – Do We Really Know the Underlying Cause?

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Prostatitis I read this article today on the UroToday website: Wednesday, 07 May 2008 Department of Urology and Centre for Research and Development, Kärnsjukhuset, Skövde, Sweden. Chronic abacterial prostatitis (or prostatitis Category III according to the National Institutes of Health terminology) is subject to re-evaluation. Organizations such as the International Continence Society, ...

New Prostate Imaging Machine has FDA Approval

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

In a press release dated May 6, 2008 from the Sacramento Business Journal the following was announced: "The ei•Nav/Artemis device, developed by Eigen Corp., allows doctors to see three-dimensional images of the prostate and helps them guide the needle when they take a biopsy. It also records the precise location so ...

Minimally-Invasive Procedures for Enlarged Prostate or BPH

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Today's topic is about what mainstream, western medical practice calls "minimally-invasive" procedures. Hold on, cause this is gonna hurt.... Minimally-invasive Treatments Catheterization - is used to temporarily drain the bladder of urine bringing immediate relief of urine retention. Prior to any other treatment, a catheter is placed through the ...

Enlarged Prostate’s (BPH) Standard Medical Treatments

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Standard Medical Treatments for the BPH Once you know that you are dealing with BPH and not cancer, there are quite a few treatment options available to you. Anything from standard medical practices, that are reactive to the diagnosis, to alternative or integrative practices that actually aid in the prevention ...