Felon held in brutal attack on elderly woman Nov 10, 2009
Authorities say McCray is married to a home health care worker who was caring for Julius Gelber, a 94-year-old retired urological surgeon who had practiced for decades in Schenectady. He was not hurt, police said. (Albany Times Union)
Stay the course Oct 14, 2009
Weve all heard the jokes before, said Assoc Prof Dr George Lee, consultant urological surgeon at Universiti Malaya. When I told my friends I was going to South Korea to give a talk on premature ejaculation, they told me, You better get there quick before its over. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Robots revolution Sep 10, 2009
Mr Justin ValeUrological surgeon ... Mr Justin Vale, a urological surgeon from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust said robots already feature heavily in his daily work. (BBC News -- Technology)
Is the Women's 800-m Champ Really a Man? The Answer Won't Be Simple Aug 26, 2009
In his paper "Intersex and the Olympic Games," Rob Ritchie, a urological surgeon at Oxford University, notes that in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta the last Games in which all female athletes were subjected to gender testing eight female athletes were found to be genetically male. Seven of them had androgen-insensitivity syndrome (AIS), a condition in which a genetic male is resistant to androgens, the male sex hormones that include testosterone. (Time.com)
Gender Games: Could the Women's 800-meter World Champ Be a Man? Aug 21, 2009
But Dr. Rob Ritchie, a urological surgeon at Oxford University and the author of "Intersex and the Olympic Games," a recent article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, says that determining someone's sex is not so simple, and that external genitalia can be misleading. A post-mortem on Stephens' body in 1980 revealed that she had "ambiguous genitalia." The post-mortem didn't go into specifics, but those genitalia could have been a small penis that was mistaken for an enlarged... (Time.com)
Oil workers shelve strike Feb 12, 2009
Falana said: "Following the order of the trial court that our client be given urgent medical treatment he was diagnosed by a Specialist Urological Surgeon at the Jos University Teaching Hospital. When the Specialist examined him on October 11, 2008, his renal function showed evidence of serious impairment caused by 'a left extra renal pelvis with a full pelvis probably from a left pelviureteric junction obstruction.' It was therefore recommended that out client be subjected to a "a diuresis... (Guardian News, Nigeria)