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Fluoxetine for refractory night wetting in children – is it safe and effective?

11 July 2023 | | URO - Paediatrics
Around 1-2% of teenagers above the age of 15 years and 2-6% of adults continue to wet the bed. Standard treatment often includes bladder advice, alarm therapy, desmopressin and anticholinergics. Tricyclic antidepressants (imipramine) can also be utilised. Unfortunately, most have...
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Prostate cancer mortality among elderly men after discontinuing organised screening

4 March 2024 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
This study presents ground-breaking insights into discontinuing prostate cancer (PCa) screening in previously screened elderly men, aiming to mitigate the risk of overdiagnosis and overtreatment in the face of other-cause mortality. Examining men aged 70–74 who had undergone prostate specific...

SmashUrology: The Question Bank for FRCS (Urol) and FEBU Exam Preparation

16 December 2025
SmashUrology is an online educational platform developed specifically to support urology trainees preparing for the FRCS (Urol) and FEBU examinations. Founded by Ibrahim Ibrahim, a senior urology registrar based in Glasgow, the platform was created in response to a lack...

Managing sustainability

2 April 2024 |
Planetary health needs to be addressed at a societal level for any meaningful impact to occur. As the global director of sustainability for a law firm, Marion Palmer provides an overview of the responsibilities of corporate organisations for both a...

The Urology Foundation launches bold #NameIt penile cancer awareness campaign

12 March 2026
The Urology Foundation launches bold #NameIt awareness campaign tapping into surprising creativity of men’s nicknames for their penis – from Big Ben to Long Dong Silver Charity campaign invites men to share the nickname they use for their penis to...

Urolithiasis 3 – renal stones and ureteroscopy

7 May 2026 | | URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Uroradiology
- Click for Part 1 and Part 2 on this topic - Case scenario A 36-year-old man with a known renal stone attends your stone clinic following a surveillance CT KUB with worsening intermittent right flank pain. Figures 1 and...

Edward Canny Ryall: the lost urologist

1 January 2015 | | URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the BAUS Virtual Museum of the History of Urology which is part of the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the last article we looked...

Demanding cases or nightmares in uro-oncology? May/Jun 2021

5 May 2021 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
It’s not in the bag until it’s out of the abdomen: abdominal wall recurrence after ruptured retrieval bag during robot-assisted partial nephrectomy We present a case of failure of a specimen retrieval bag during a robot-assisted partial nephrectomy resulting in...

Upper urinary tract urothelial cell carcinoma

7 January 2021 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Case 1 A 64-year-old man presents to the haematuria clinic with visible haematuria, on a background of a 40 pack-year smoking history and family history of bowel cancer in his sister at the age of 48. A CT was performed...

Men with a susceptibility to prostate cancer: implications of family history in PCa risk-prediction

3 September 2021 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Incorporation of family history (FH) status into prostate cancer (PCa) risk stratification has the potential to underpin many aspects of PCa care. This group of men presents a unique challenge in early cancer detection, particularly given that most men without...

Government says continence care should be based on need, not arbitrary limits

3 August 2026 | Urology News
NHS trusts have come under fresh pressure to end arbitrary restrictions on the numbers of absorbent continence products supplied to patients after ministers reiterated that continence care should be based on clinical need and uphold patients' dignity. The Department of...

‘Man van’ launched to speed up cancer diagnosis and improve healthcare access

1 June 2022 | URO - Andrology, URO - Urologic Oncology
The ‘Man Van’, an innovative new outreach programme, was launched in March this year to provide free health checks for men and boost early diagnosis of prostate and other urological cancers. The mobile health clinic will visit workplaces and churches...