Gaffin is an infectious disease physician in New Jersey. Recently, a former patient contacted me about his wife. “She had a recent stroke which has caused cognitive decline along with slow-growing ...

Intermittent catheterization is a medical technique used to help empty the bladder. A catheter can be passed through the urethra or through a surgical channel in the skin to the bladder, after which ...

Researchers have studied a new method to deliver antibiotics, specifically gentamicin, directly into the bladder tissue to better treat UTIs. They did this by creating nanogels combined with a special ...

Your urinary tract includes the parts of your body that make urine and carry it out of your body. For men, those assigned male at birth, and anyone with a penis, these parts include your kidneys, ...

The urinary system helps maintain the volume and chemical composition of fluids in the body. One of the main organs in the system are the kidneys, which filter waste products out of the body through ...

Superficial urothelial (umbrella) cells have one or multiple nuclei with finely granular chromatin and conspicuous nucleoli, abundant cytoplasm, and low N/C ratios (a and b). For bladder washing ...

Yoga has been recommended for years to treat or prevent health conditions that are associated with aging, such as urinary incontinence, but there’s been little data to back it up. Now, a study led by ...

As cases of urinary tract infections grow, infections are also getting harder to treat with commonly used antibiotics. Contaminated meat, especially poultry, can spread E. coli bacteria that cause ...

Urinary tract infections are common, and the risk generally increases with age. They happen when bacteria infect your urethra, bladder, or other organs in your urinary tract. In older people, UTIs ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...