During much of my medical career, my understanding of the human bladder was that it was a reservoir for the body’s metabolic waste and that it simply stores #urine until it signals a sense of fullness to motivate volitional voiding. As filling increases tissue distension, intensity of desire to void increases accordingly. Throughout most of the day, the bladder just passively fills. How reassuringly simple! I also understood that bladders, and mostly of females, are very vu

#Overactivebladder syndrome, (OAB), describing #urinaryurgency of unknown cause, was so named because #urodynamic investigations of...

UroPharma produced #intravesical drug-delivery technology to bring, under licence, better cystitis (lower #UTI) treatments. For decades,...

When we find a solution to a problem, naturally we look to the same approach for the next similar challenge. #Antibiotics changed the...

“We know almost nothing about managing UTI.” This assertion went unchallenged at the British Society of #Antimicrobial Chemotherapy multidisciplinary conference of experts last year. Increasingly, we struggle because following #cystitis #treatments, #infection recurrences and #antimicrobial #resistance too often occur, compromising patients’ health and efficient service provision. PubMed UK searches reveal over 81,000 articles are available on “UTI” and more than 16,000 on