Colleagues While I applaud last week’s publication of the Lancet Commission report on Dementia 2024 that provided updated information on...

Unconscious bias is a systematic cognitive error in decision-making, about which the decision-maker is unaware. Unconscious bias against #bladders is common, especially infected ones. Compared to other organs, progress in #cystitis management has barely changed for ~ ¾ of a century, despite incidences increasing, recurrences abounding, and AMR becoming more pervasive, because of antiquated, flawed and haphazard treatments. We challenge “haphazard” through #antibioticsteward

This page from European Urology is enlightening for anyone treating urinary urgency or taking the treatments. The text explains that oral treatments’ beneficial responses are slight, modest and substantially placebo effects at the cost of over twice the risk of inducing cognitive impairments. They also produce symptomatic side effects, most notably dry mouth, that are real and mechanistically well understood as antimuscarinic actions on tissue receptors. The authors explain t