Karen Fowler, M.P.H., who helped develop the guide and is a longtime patient safety specialist at the VA Center for Clinical ...

Millions of times a year, Americans seek urgent treatment for painful, embarrassing urinary tract infections. But while they ...

UTIs can be painful, and they’re not something people like to talk about. But they happen often, affecting an estimated 60% ...

UTIs are generally caused by bacteria — E. coli, most often — and research suggests that, at least in some cases, the ...

IDSA recommends shorter antibiotic courses for adults with cUTIs who show clinical improvement on effective therapy.

A stewardship initiative improved guideline-adherent UTI management and reduced unnecessary treatment for AUPs.

It starts with discomfort—an itch, a burning sensation or an urgent need to visit the bathroom—and you can’t help but wonder: what’s going on? For many women, the symptoms of thrush (a yeast infection ...

Doctors warn that repeatedly ignoring the urge to urinate can increase the risk of UTIs, bladder stretching and kidney stress ...

Woman, 21, faces losing her bladder after dismissing rare condition as UTI - Caris Gibson was diagnosed with the rare urinary retention condition, Fowler’s Syndrome, in 2025 ...

Patients with neuropathic bladder (NB), a condition in which nerve damage affects bladder function, have a significantly ...