Author: clevidence

Neurogenic bowel dysfunction affects more than 80% of individuals with spina bifida and remains one of the most significant challenges impacting health, independence, and quality of life. In a recent article in AUANews, Maryellen Kelly, DNP, MHSc, an alumnus of the Duke University K12 Program, and David Chu, MD, MSCE, co-investigator of the CAIRIBU Children’s …

“Is the prostate growing and getting harder, so it squeezes on the tube and narrows the tube, or is it that the tube itself is actually getting smaller, or is it a combination of these things?” This is a fundamental question to understanding benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a disease affecting the majority of aging men. …

For decades, kidney stone disease has been understood primarily as a disorder ofurinary chemistry. In a recent article in AUANews, CAIRIBU Urobiome ResearchInterest Group investigator Aaron Miller, PhD, highlights a growing body ofevidence suggesting that microbes within the urinary tract may also play animportant role in stone formation, offering a new way to think about …