Q: Recently, a 47-year-old asymptomatic patient had a random prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level of 5.32 ng/mL. A repeat assay the following day was 6.10. All previous PSAs over a seven-year period ...

Escherichia coli is the most common cause of bacterial prostatitis. Findings from a small study suggest it could be an effective, safe, and attractive alternative to fluoroquinolones, bacterial ...

Many men diagnosed as having prostatitis have pelvic pain but no evidence of bacterial infection, and thus do not benefit from antibiotic treatment. Taylor et al. provide evidence that a considerable ...

Bacteriophages (like this computer-simulated one) can clear out infections in a way that antibiotics sometimes can't. Gregory Breed doesn’t remember exactly when he began suffering from symptoms of a ...

Data are from the first randomized clinical trial evaluating whether prophylactic antibiotics are needed for transperineal prostate biopsy. In men without infection risk factors, antibiotic ...

Association between cancer stem-like cell gene expression and clinical outcome in localized prostate cancer: A nested case-control study. Background: The impact of an empiric course of antibiotics for ...

A multi-institutional clinical trial showed that a newer technique for collecting prostate biopsy samples reduced the risk of infection compared with traditional biopsy approaches. A ...