The Mitrofanoff procedure is a simple yet ingenious concept that creates a passageway for the easy removal of urine in patients who self-catheterize. Every so often, I will come across a medical ...

PIERRE — Using a catheter to take a child's urine without parental consent would become a criminal offense under a proposal filed Thursday. Senate Bill 164 would prohibit physicians, nurses or others ...

A federal judge has dismissed the South Dakota Department of Social Services and several of its officials from a lawsuit alleging they deprived a 3-year-old boy and his mother of their rights after ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A federal judge has dropped the South Dakota Department of Social Services and Avera St. Mary’s Hospital in Pierre from a lawsuit alleging they deprived a 3-year-old boy and ...

Dr. Keith Roach is a physician at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital. He writes an educational column on infectious diseases, public health and sports medicine. DEAR DR.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 75 years old and in very good health. I run five days a week and work out three. I was getting up six times a night or more to go to the bathroom. I went to the urologist, who ...