Vaccine for advanced castration-resistant prostate cancer prolongs life by a median of four months, but at an extremely high cost.

One practitioner's perceived good deed for a dying patient could be another's definition of homicide. In No Good Deed: A Story of Medicine, Murder, Accusations, and the Debate over How We Die (HarperCollins), Lewis M. Cohen, MD, examines the true story of two renal nurses at Baystate Medical Center (Springfield, Mass.) who were investigated for murder in 2001 after a nursing assistant accused them of causing the death of a patient.

In an interview with Renal & Urology News, Robert D. Kreisman, JD, of Kreisman Law Offices in Chicago, shares some insights on legal issues related to imaging tests.

This article is the second in a two-part series on the expanding use of imaging studies.

This article is the first in a two-part series examining the expanding use of diagnostic imaging in urology.

End-of-life considerations are increasingly influencing the course of dialysis in patients with end-stage renal disease.

Studies provide conflicting results on the influence of dietary fat, but caloric intake may be the key, researcher says.

According to researchers, they are responsible for a growing proportion of bloodstream infections in dialysis and renal transplant patients.

How many radical prostatectomies does a urologist need to perform to be proficient?

FGF-23 may improve assessment of phosphate balance, but too many questions remain unanswered.