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Artificial intelligence

1 March 2019 | Ivo Dukic | URO - Technology

Artificial intelligence concerns me. Generally, people still tend to be concerned that their livelihoods will be replaced by an all powerful, all knowing artificial intelligence (AI) system. This at a time when the world’s largest technology companies (Amazon, Google, Apple),...

Management of recurrent cystitis

1 March 2016 | Ased Ali, Chris Harding | URO - Infection, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology

Acute uncomplicated infective cystitis is most commonly seen in healthy women with a frequency of around 0.5-0.7 episodes per woman per year [1]. Around 10% of women report having had an episode of urinary tract infection (UTI) each year and...

Priapism

7 January 2021 | Kate McMurrugh (Dr), Torath Ameen, Rozh Jalil | URO - Andrology

Priapism is defined as an abnormally persistent erection lasting greater than four hours, not associated with sexual desire [1]. Although relatively uncommon with an incidence of 1.5 per 100,000 [2], priapism has a risk of complications which can have a...

ICS updates in continence care: the role of the nurse continence specialist in continence services

1 November 2016 | Kathleen F Hunter | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology

The nurse who specialises in continence care is recognised as a key member of interdisciplinary teams seeking to deliver high quality integrated continence services. The recently published international service specifications for continence care [1] supports the use of specialist continence...

Robotic assisted perineal prostatectomy: descriptive technique of the inaugural case in the UK

1 January 2019 | Jonathan Noël, Bradley Russell, Christopher Ogden, Jihad Kaouk | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology

Robotic surgery has taken full flight in the USA since its start in 2000 [1] and is replacing procedures where open surgical techniques were solely employed. While this technology is met with criticism over the costs, the superiority of robotic...

Micro-Ultrasound in Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis, risk stratification, and active surveillance

3 July 2026 | Muhannad Aljoulani, Bhavan Rai, Bhaskar K Somani | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology, URO - Uroradiology

Prostate cancer diagnostics have undergone a major shift with the adoption of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI), improving detection of clinically significant disease while reducing unnecessary biopsies [1,2]. However, MRI-based pathways come with practical limitations: cost, access, delays and reliance on radiological...

Spencer Wells

1 March 2016 | Michael Wanis, Jonathan Charles Goddard | 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). In the last article I wrote about some well-used eponyms seen in the...

Figure 1 app

1 July 2016 | Ivo Dukic | URO - Technology

Figure 1 is an app that enables the sharing of medical images to aid learning. In essence, Figure 1 is an Instagram for healthcare. It was launched in 2013 and now connects a network of up to one million healthcare...

Should it be a mandatory requirement for medical students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to attend clinical attachments?

11 August 2021 | Charles O’Donovan | URO - Core Urology

The vast majority of medical students have positive attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine for themselves and patients, however, what about the small inevitable minority who resist it? Should they be prevented from attending clinical attachments in the NHS? It is...

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