News

• Focusing on men's health: introducing a new Trends
• Published on Jun 08, 2010

This issue of Trends in Urology, Gynaecology and Sexual Health is the last for the journal in its current format. In the autumn, we will be launching Trends in Urology and Men’s Health. The new journal will continue to provide high-quality articles from leading specialists in the areas of prostate disease, erectile dysfunction, incontinence and genitourinary medicine. In addition, it will broaden its remit into other areas that affect men’s health,...

• Inequalities in prostate cancer treatment
• Published on Apr 29, 2010

The Prostate Cancer Charity says there is an urgent need for research to find out why men from lower socio-economic groups are less likely than men from more affluent groups to receive radical surgery or radiotherapy for prostate cancer.  

• NICE on bedwetting
• Published on Apr 29, 2010

Consultation on a NICE draft clinical guideline on bedwetting by children and young people under 19 has ended.  

• Charity welcomes RCGP study
• Published on Apr 29, 2010

Contraception charity Marie Stopes International has welcomed new evidence that oral contraceptives (OCs) are not associated with increased mortality. It says that fears about OCs may be founded in myths such as ‘there is no evidence that OCs are safe’, and concerned women will be reassured by the new findings.  

• Cervarix does not increase miscarriage risk
• Published on Apr 29, 2010

The bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix is not associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, say investigators in North America (Br Med J 2010;340:c712).