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Students for Urology: a new national society aimed at improving undergraduate exposure

1 July 2021 | | URO - Core Urology
As medical students, we were surprised at just how little urological content was taught at medical school. We received a basic education on how to manage urological infections, renal stones and urinary retention but nothing particularly inspiring was shared, nothing...

BXTAccelyon becomes global distribution partner for new online prostate MRI self-learning tool to enhance prostate cancer diagnosis

6 May 2020 | Contracts & Distributors
BXTAccelyon, the leading low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy partner to hospitals and clinics worldwide, and distribution partner for PrecisionPoint™, the...

The Malcolm Coptcoat Travelling Fellowship Award

6 December 2022
The Urology Foundation and The Malcolm Coptcoat Trust are pleased to announce the creation of The Malcolm Coptcoat Travelling Fellowship. The annual Fellowship will support travel to international centres of excellence for a period of four to six weeks to...

Is Aquablation redefining the standard of care for BPO surgery?

4 November 2026 | | URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Technology
Lessons from Richard Hindley’s first 100 cases Few innovations in the surgical management of benign prostatic obstruction (BPO) have generated as much discussion as Aquablation (PROCEPT BioRobotics®). By combining robotically executed tissue resection with real-time transrectal ultrasound guidance, the technology...
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Changing concepts in endourological training – SIMULATE trial

4 September 2020 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
Skill acquisition for endourological procedures is markedly different from traditional open surgical procedures, questioning the applicability of the presently used apprenticeship model. The lack of a universal simulation training curriculum has hampered its adoption into mainstream urological training. This study...

Prostate Cancer UK Clinical Champions Programme

26 November 2024 | Research & Development, Charities, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries
Prostate Cancer UK have opened applications for their award-winning Clinical Champions Programme.

Is it time for a kidney stress test?

21 January 2026 | Research & Development, Urology News
In healthcare, what we measure shapes how we predict outcomes and intervene. For kidney health, traditional tools like estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) provide only a partial picture. Relying solely on eGFR is like judging heart health with a resting...

ICS updates in continence care: a personal perspective on the role of basic science in urology

1 March 2017 | | URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
At a urology research meeting in Sheffield a few years ago, a former post doctorate researcher in urology, Mathieu Boudes, said: “Stop calling it basic research, there is nothing basic about it. It is fundamental research to everything urologists do.”...

Poster Presentations for the ERIC Conference 2026

3 June 2026 | Urology News
ERIC, The Children’s Bowel & Bladder Charity, are pleased to be hosting this year’s ERIC Conference for healthcare professionals, at The Grand Hotel in Bristol on 12 October 2026. The theme: Together for 35 years: leading change in paediatric bowel...

A Core Trainee’s Guide to Preparing for a Career in Urology

1 March 2014 | | URO - Core Urology
National Selection pits the best of the UK’s core surgical trainees (sorry – that includes EEC countries as well) against each other in a process that determines who is allowed to proceed into higher surgical training. For the successful, it...

Joaquín Albarrán (1860–1912), the gifted promise

4 March 2025 | | URO - Technology
In this series of articles, I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). Does the name Joaquín Albarrán mean anything to you? Maybe you remember using...

Bladder Health UK

2 November 2023 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection
- CHARITY FOCUS - Bladder Health UK is a national patient support charity that has been communicating with bladder illness sufferers for 30 years. The charity offers a lot of resources to give help, educate and inform, including webinars, study...