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Conference apps

1 March 2018 | | Technological Developments
With conference season soon starting I thought I would run through some of the apps I think would be useful for delegates attending a urology conference in the coming year. The conference app It is often useful to download the...

Quality Improvement – how to get involved?

1 November 2018 |
The General Medical Council (GMC) requires all trainee doctors to carry out Quality Improvement (QI) as part of our annual appraisal process [1]. Exactly what QI projects are and how to get involved is less widely understood. Traditionally surgical trainees...

The management of renal calculi – Pt 1

1 March 2018 | | Endourology and Stones
Renal calculi can be managed according to four treatment options: conservative management, extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL), flexible ureterorenoscopy (FURS) and percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). This is the first in a two-part series in Urology News (Part 2 available here) that will...

The conservative assessment and treatment of mixed urinary and anal incontinence in women: a multidisciplinary approach

1 September 2019 | | Functional Urology, Neurourology
Mixed urinary incontinence Urinary incontinence (UI) is considered to be a highly prevalent condition; however, depending upon the definitions used, actual reported prevalence rates can vary significantly. The International Consultation on Incontinence (ICI) review [1], reported unadjusted prevalence estimates for...

Read all about it Jan/Feb 2020

7 January 2020 | Andrology, Trauma and Emergency Urology, Urologic Oncology
Read all about it... It can be awkward when a patient asks you about a report in their favourite tabloid detailing an amazing research breakthrough or a ‘cutting-edge’ new treatment / test and you don’t know what they are talking...

PROFILE study seeks to find out why black men develop prostate cancer at twice the rate of other men

1 December 2020 | Urologic Oncology
A first-of-its-kind study in the UK is aiming to solve the mystery of why black men develop prostate cancer at twice the rate of other men. Funded by Prostate Cancer UK in partnership with Movember, the PROFILE study will look...

BAUS Annual Scientific Meeting 2023

19 June 2023 -21 June 2023
Day 1 Highlights by: Omer Abdalla, Urology ST6 - Wirral University Teaching Hospitals, Mersey BSoT Trainee's rep (@Omer_Uro1). BAUS 2023 began last night with a wonderful welcome reception at the Birmingham Library, where urologists from throughout the UK met again,...

A research revolution

1 March 2017 | | Basic Science Research, Technological Developments
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” Erenesto ‘Che’ Guevara There was a time, not so long ago, when you actually had to go to a library to read...

So you want to go on a Fellowship: part 1

1 January 2016 |
Look out for part 2 of this series later in 2016 when the author will discuss settling into the research role of his fellowship and will reflect on his first year overseas. This is the first in a series of...

COVID-19 cuts prostate cancer referrals in half

7 October 2020 | COVID-19 - Urology News, Urologic Oncology
Charity warns that 3500 men risk being diagnosed with incurable cancer as referrals drop to lowest in 10 years Urgent referrals for urological cancers have dropped by half in England (49.5%) compared to the same period last year as the...

Geoffrey Parker (1902-1973) – urologist to the French Resistance!

7 January 2021 | | Technological Developments
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). This time, I am joined by Jasmine Winyard, urology trainee in Leicester; we...

Redundant! Do urological surgeons have a future in treating urological cancers? RSM Urology Section Meeting

4 March 2024 | | Urologic Oncology
December 2023 marked the latest RSM Urology Section event. Alongside the Winter Short Papers Prize presentations, the theme of the day was major urological cancers and the role of the urologist in patient management within the multidisciplinary team (MDT). We...