Bloomberg News reports that antibiotics that are often used as the "last line of defense against life-threatening germs" are losing their potency in the European population. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has reported that "a germ called Acinetobacter has become resistant to one of...

A new post in NPR's Shots blog reports that urine cultures, though accurate for identifying women who have bladder infections with E. coli bacteria, "miss women who had infections with other bacteria, or have low levels of E. coli that were still enough to make the women sick ... Many labs ignore...

Caroline Rhea, comedian/activist, and Elizabeth R. Mueller, MD, discuss the latest treatments for overactive bladder including oral medications and sacral nerve stimulation. They urge physicians to consider botulinum toxin, which has been shown in studies to treat overactive bladder for up to 6 months, and...