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Useful links  
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  • Uro Today
    Translating urology research into clinical practice
Uro Today
  • Urological Pelvic Pain Collaborative Research Network (UPPCRN)
    • the UPPCRN serves as the official NIDDK Working Group on chronic pelvic pain of urological origin, to facilitate interaction of study groups and investigators, both nationally and internationally, to advance the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of these diseases
  • NIDDK booklet on IC/PBS
    • the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has a patient booklet on IC/PBS; this booklet is written in very simple terms and can be found on their website
 
 
  • Timely Topics in Medicine-Urology (TTMed - Urology)
    Timely Topics in Medicine-Urology is Prous Science's on-line medical education service for specialist urologists and comprises original a medical news service, review articles, access to webcasts of key international congress lectures, clinical scenarios, self assessment programmes, congress reports and more
  • Alliance for Aging Research
    • this alliance is currently working on an educational project geared towards consumers on BPH (benign prostate hypertrophy or enlarged prostate) 
    • this project involves the development of educational materials on the condition and its symptoms, in hopes of educating the public on BPH and distinguishing it from prostate cancer
ICN

  • UROlog
    • the urologic website with information for professionals and patients
  • Urology Health
    • a website of the American Urological Association with a lot of information on urological diseases; the link takes you directly to the section on IC.
  • Urosource
    • uroSource is a new independent website with an extensive database filled with scientific articles, fact sheets, key article reports, meetings and congress reports and related urological literature
    • this free service is updated on a daily basis.
     
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