“We shouldn’t outright provide a negative attitude to our patients who are looking for alternatives that [serve as] complementary medicine, [like] herbal or phytotherapeutic agents,” says J. Curtis Nickel, MD, FRCSC.

“We shouldn’t outright provide a negative attitude to our patients who are looking for alternatives that [serve as] complementary medicine, [like] herbal or phytotherapeutic agents,” says J. Curtis Nickel, MD, FRCSC.

“I think it’s important for urologists and physicians to have an open mind in regard to complementary approaches to the treatment of BPH-related LUTS in men,” says J. Curtis Nickel, MD, FRCSC.

“What’s interesting in Dr Strum’s analysis of these trials is that he not only looked at the English literature, which many of us are familiar with, but he looked at the many studies done in countries that were published in the non-English literature and never found [their] way into any of our analyses,” says J. Curtis Nickel, MD, FRCSC.

A brief overview of regulation in nutraceuticals/food supplement use for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and lower urinary tract symptoms.