BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Organized by the Pain of Urological Origin (PUGO) special interest group of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Glasgow, Scotland August 15-16, 2008. PUGO held a 2 day meeting in Scotland prior to the

The University of Virginia Health System has received a 2009 Stroke Care Excellence Award from HealthGrades, a provider of independent hospital ratings. The award, which UVA also received in 2008, is given annually for clinical excellence to the top ten p

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the start of a Phase III study with Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets in liver cancer. The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study is evaluating Nexavar as an adjuvant

In England alone, an estimated seven million people have NHS operations every year(1) and the majority of these are conducted under general anaesthesia.

Selected Studies: B.P.H. Government agencies, universities and corporations frequently enroll patients in studies designed to test the effectiveness of new drugs, procedures and medical devices.