Cystitis refers to inflammation of the bladder and usually occurs due to infection. The most common cause of cystitis is bacterial infection of the urinary tract, which spreads to the bladder where it ...

Intestinal metaplasia has been proposed to be a precursor lesion of adenocarcinoma in the urinary bladder. CDX2 is a transcription factor that is encoded by a homeotype gene that plays an essential ...

The human body hosts a diverse array of microorganisms that maintain a delicate balance crucial for overall health. This microbial harmony can be disrupted by factors like infections, aging, and ...

BLADDER infections in middle-age might be a sign of cancer, doctors warn. Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, are common and usually harmless but could signal more sinister illness in some patients.

Reviewed by Henry A. Solomon, MD, FACP, FACC Clinical Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner A few extra glasses of water a day could cut the ...

Cystitis (sis-TIE-tis) is the medical term for inflammation of the bladder. Most of the time, the inflammation is caused by a bacterial infection, and it's called a urinary tract infection (UTI). A ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

According to Diabetes UK, just under five million people have diabetes in the UK. Of these, around 90 percent have type 2 diabetes, and 10 percent have type 1. While some symptoms are better known ...

MILLIONS of women are wrongly taking ibuprofen for urinary tract infections and it could making them worse, experts warned. The common painkiller could prolong the infection by three days and increase ...