Urinary Tract Infection

4 articles published between December 16, 2025 and August 22, 2026.

Covered in Body, Women's Health and Tech & Medicine.

WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYS

Cranberry does cut recurrent UTIs — in the people it helps, and not the ones it doesn't

A Cochrane review of 50 trials found cranberry products lower UTI risk in women with recurrent infections and in children, but no benefit in the elderly, in pregnancy, or in bladder-emptying problems.

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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYS

For recurrent UTIs, a non-antibiotic pill matched daily antibiotics in a trial

In the 240-woman ALTAR trial, methenamine hippurate was non-inferior to standard low-dose antibiotic prophylaxis over a year. Most other non-antibiotic prevention strategies still rest on weak evidence.

3 min read

ANALYSIS

An Israeli AI cut antibiotic mismatch by 30%. A third of doctors ignored it anyway

Maccabi Healthcare Services studied 626 of its own physicians to work out who follows algorithmic prescribing advice — and found the pattern was about practice structure, not just attitude.

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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYS

Nine percent of older women diagnosed with a menopause syndrome filled the treatment

A study of 1.8 million Medicare beneficiaries found vaginal estrogen prescriptions went unfilled by the overwhelming majority — and were least likely of all in women with recurrent urinary tract infections.

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