Urology involves some of the most intimate medical conditions, yet patients don’t necessarily always prefer to be treated by a urologist of their own gender, new research has found. In some situations ...

(HealthDay News) — After adjustment for multiple factors, female urologists are significantly less compensated than males, according to a study published in The Journal of Urology. E. Sophie Spencer, ...

Source: Getty Images Panelists in a LUGPA 2023 session on empowering women urologists cite lack of formal maternity policies in practices and longer times to advance in academia. Despite their growing ...

*According to the American Urological Association, approximately 1.8 percent of today’s urologists are Black. Black men over-index in terms of being diagnosed and dying of prostate cancer compared to ...

Female physicians have traditionally been underrepresented in the practice of urology, but their numbers are rising. Currently, 11.8 percent of urologists are female, according to the 2023 annual ...

Becoming a doctor was something that Christina Peterson was determined to achieve. That dream started when she was young school girl who knew what her career path would be. "I told my parents as early ...

Urologists also treat conditions that affect male reproductive organs. The reproductive and urinary systems work closely together in men. Urologists often treat conditions that affect both systems.

It’s easy to see genitourinary oncology as a man’s world. Many cancers that genitourinary oncologists treat affect only men, such as prostate, testicular and penile cancers. Although bladder and ...

The face of urology is quickly changing as more women than ever before become physicians in the field. But it's taken a long time to get to this point. It wasn't until 1962 that a woman became a board ...

SIR: According to the Oxford dictionary, Urology, also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary- tract and the male ...