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Hawassa (Ethiopia)  In 2015, Urolink received funding from the British Journal of Urology International (BJUI) to advance urological training and care in Hawassa through targeted education and professional exchange programmes that aimed to... Read more

Ethiopia

Hawassa (Ethiopia)  In 2015, Urolink received funding from the British Journal of Urology International (BJUI) to advance urological training and care in Hawassa through targeted education and professional exchange programmes that aimed to... Read more

UK Urologists Working Abroad

UK Urologists Working Abroad The Urolink faculty welcomes members to visit established centres, discussion about the logistics of setting up a new link, and encourages collaboration with other interested parties to share resources and... Read more

Visit Details & Reports

Visit Details and Reports PLEASE NOTE: all recipients of funding are asked to submit a report of their visit, using a Word template supplied by Urolink (downloadable using the button below). All reports are converted to PDFs before... Read more

Edward Canny Ryall

Edward Canny Ryall (1865 - 1934) was a well-known name in British urology at the beginning of the 20th century. He was a great philanthropist who dedicated his life and fortune to relieving the suffering of urology patients. He was born... Read more

History of the Cystoscope

Previously published papers, archived and stored in the library for personal reading 1865: Sir Francis Cruise The endoscope as an aid to the diagnosis and treatment of disease BMJ 1865; 2: 329-363 In 1865 Cruise introduced an improved version... Read more

Jim Macalpine

JB ("Jim") Macalpine was born in Accrington, the son of a wealthy colliery owner. He was educated in London and Manchester before he started his medical career in Manchester. After service in the army during the First World War, he settled in... Read more

Radical Prostatectomy

Carcinoma of the prostate is the commonest cancer in men in the UK with 30,000 new cases each year and 10,000 deaths. For many years, British urologists resisted the urge to copy their transatlantic colleagues by carrying out extirpative... Read more

Sir Henry Morris

Sir Henry Morris was a British cancer surgeon and urologist. His main expertise was in anatomy where his prime area of interest was in the joints and articulations of the human body. Singlehandedly, he developed a Cancer Department at The... Read more

St Paul's Hospital London

The founder of St Paul’s Hospital was a surgeon, Mr Felix Vinrace. He raised money for: ... founding a hospital in Central London for the treatment of the many forms of skin and cognate diseases so prevalent in our midst. The hospital... Read more

The Evolution of Surgery for Benign Enlargement of the Prostate

From open surgery and several weeks in hospital to day-case laser surgery or relief of symptoms in an outpatient setting Transurethral resection of the prostate, TURP, is one of the operations that defines urology,but, although it was... Read more

Urology News Articles

The Editor of Urology News has kindly allowed us to store copies of the published "History of Urology" articles in the Library of the BAUS Virtual Museum. All the articles below are in Adobe Acrobat® (PDF) format, and open in a new browser... Read more