“For the last thirty years, the best we could do for our patients with celiac disease was advise them to go on a gluten-free diet. Not only is complying with this diet difficult, contamination introduces gluten to many supposedly gluten-free foods. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of patients who rigorously follow the diet, will still experience […]
The SYNERGY study is examining an investigational combination of two drugs prescribed for overactive bladder (OAB) to see if, when taken together, they may provide more relief – and fewer side-effects – than when taken on their own. If you experience a frequent and sudden urge to urinate, followed by leakage or loss of […]
In the 3.4 billion dollar global market for erectile dysfunction treatments, there’s always some new notion or potion hoping to capture a piece of the business. When it comes to herbal testosterone preparations, we’d like to offer a dose of common sense. Patients should be very skeptical about herbal testosterone and other “nutraceuticals.” The term […]
Considering that advertising for a host of medications like Viagra, Levitra, Cialis, and Staxyn have brought the problem of erectile dysfunction (ED) into our living rooms, many men still find it difficult to talk about in their doctor’s office. Yet it is an issue that 30 million men in America – including half of those […]
We invite you to join Premier Medical Group and Vassar Brothers Medical Center for the annual Urology Teaching Day. The event will be on Thursday, April 30, 2015 from 2:00-6:00pm at Villa Borghese, 70 Widmer Road, Wappingers Falls, NY. This year’s focus will be on bladder cancer, prostate cancer, and renal cell carcinoma. This is […]
Kidney cancer is one of the 10 most common cancers in the U.S.; according to estimates by the American Cancer Society, approximately 64,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed this year and about 14,000 people will die from it. Approximately 90 percent of kidney cancers are categorized as renal cell carcinoma (RCC). In […]