If you’ve ever had a urinary catheter, you’ll know they’re unpleasant. If you haven’t, imagine someone threading a tube up through your urethra into your bladder and … yes, yes they hurt. Mercifully, ...

Q: I’m a middle-aged woman scheduled to have surgery next week. My doctor said I’ll need an indwelling urinary catheter during and for a few days after my surgery. This sounds worse than the surgery.

A biological sensor that catches infections on hospital catheters at an early stage has been developed by young scientists. The device aims to prevent painful urinary infections in elderly hospital ...

The most common type of hospital-associated infection may be preventable with a vaccine, new research in mice suggests. The experimental vaccine prevented urinary tract infections associated with ...

UroShield is an ultrasound device designed to reduce the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (UTI) by reducing bacterial colonisation and biofilm formation on indwelling urinary ...

NEW YORK (Oct. 02, 2008) -- To ease the pain of recovery following prostate cancer surgery, physician-scientists have developed an innovative and patient-friendly approach that eliminates the use of a ...