Antibiotic drugs are considered the first line of treatment for urinary tract infections (UTIs). Other medications and ...

Having blood in your urine (hematuria) does not always mean you have an underlying abnormality. It may simply be the result of heavy exercise or a side effect of a drug that needs to be changed.

Diagnosis of UTI is confirmed by a positive culture of an appropriate urine sample; much of the existing controversy is the result of the difficulty to obtain such a sample in young children.

A woman who has been drinking her own pee and rubbing it on her face for over a decade claims it improves her skin and overall health. Ruby Karyo, 30, has been gulping down her morning urine and ...

Ayan Kumar Dey. However, the presence of fungi in urine does not always indicate a fungal infection. “Mere presence of yeast cells in the urine or presence of fungal growth in a single urine ...

Criteria for inclusion in the study were as follows: significant gram-negative bacteriuria (10 5 organisms per milliliter of urine) in several consecutive pretreatment cultures; isolation of the ...

Pyuria is a condition that occurs when excess white blood cells are present in the urine. With pyuria, you can have visible changes in the urine, which may appear cloudy or thick or look like pus.

Cost-effectiveness agency NICE says the tests – which produce results in under an hour from a urine sample – could speed up treatment and also help prevent inappropriate prescribing of ...

In light of the scarcity of treatment options for VRE UTI and clinical data related to daptomycin use in this setting, the purpose of this report is to describe the clinical experience with ...

in which oral gepotidacin was compared against nitrofurantoin for the treatment of uncomplicated UTI. The intention-to-treat population (N=143) included 203 patients with ESBL-positive infections ...