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Junior doctors’ strike: is there light at the end of the tunnel?
Most urology departments will be affected one way or another by the ongoing industrial action by our junior colleagues. This article gives an interview between the BMJ team and Jeremy Hunt, UK Secretary of State for Health. We may or...
BPS – a diagnostic enigma
This article from a London teaching hospital presents the results of a Medline search about challenges in bladder pain syndrome. All the known definitions from the American Urological Association (AUA), European Association of Urology (EAU), etc. are given while the...ABC (Action Bladder Cancer) UK Annual Nurses Education Day: Understanding Bladder Cancer and the Latest Developments
Action Bladder Cancer UK is holding its next annual Nurses’ Education Day for Urology Nurses and Clinical Nurse Specialists in Birmingham on Friday 5th September 2025. This is ABC UK’s fourth full day education event for nurses, following the success...ABC (Action Bladder Cancer) UK Setting up a support group for your patients - A guide for urology and cancer nurses working with bladder cancer patients
ABC UK are running an online Zoom session on Monday 18th August at 6:30pm, which is being run in response to requests from urology and cancer nurses, on how to set up and run a successful patient support group. There...In conversation with Ian Pearce
We were delighted to catch up with our old friend, Ian Pearce, former Editor of Urology News and new President of BAUS. Can you tell us a little bit about what led you into the field of urology and the...
Beware of the ambiguous testicular lump
In busy day-to-day practice, we are often faced with puzzling situations. A useful mnemonic is 4-T: torsion, trauma, tumour and tuberculosis (infections). This case review in the BMJ is about a 34-year-old man presenting to A&E with left testicular pain...Prostate cancer management 1 – non-metastatic disease
You are referred a 68-year-old gentleman to the rapid access prostate clinic with a serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) of 12ug/L. He is otherwise fit and well with mild voiding lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). He undergoes a multi parametric...
The 5-Minute Urology Consult (Third Edition)
I suspect that if Dominic Corrigan (famous for the metaphorical escape route afforded to busy clinicians) was a urologist he would most certainly have had a copy of the The 5-Minute Urology Consult and would have then subsequently been famous...
Smith’s Textbook of Endourology (3rd Edition)
Without doubt this represents the endourological bible for the urological fraternity and unquestionably reflects a labour of love for its authors. At approximately 1900 pages it is no pocket book of modern urology, and whilst clearly encyclopaedic in its content,...
Stepwise voltage ramping causes less renal haematomas than fixed maximal voltage ESWL
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) remains the recommended first line treatment for stones <2cm in the renal pelvis and upper or mid-pole calyces (Türk C, Knoll T, Petrik A, et al. European Association of Urology Guidelines on Urolithiasis. 2014). There...
Urinary NGAL, KIM-1 and L-FABP concentrations in antenatal hydronephrosis
he elusive search for being able to diagnose pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction (PUJO) continues and this group of researchers investigated the possible clinical application of urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL), urinary kidney injury molecule-1 (uKIM-1) and urinary liver-type fatty acid-binding proteins...
