New research suggests some UTI-causing bacteria can survive antibiotics deep in bladder tissue, helping explain why ...

A new review in Nature Reviews Urology synthesizes how animal models of diabetes, obesity, dyslipidaemia and hypertension reveal the mechanisms linking metabolic syndrome to bladder dysfunction.

Bladder cancer arises from the lining of the bladder, the organ that stores urine, and is one of the most common cancers in the United States. Most patients are diagnosed at an early stage called ...

Acquisition positions Veracyte to deliver powerful genomic insights from urine, tissue, and blood to help guide bladder cancer care across the patient journeySOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 14, ...

Chronic stress may contribute to the pain and urinary symptoms experienced by people with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) by triggering changes in the bladder and nervous system, ...

A Barcelona study of 87 patients shows that FGFR3 protein overexpression independently predicts recurrence in high-grade T1 ...

A bladder infection is inflammation or irritation of the bladder, typically caused by bacteria. Your doctor may also refer to this as cystitis or a urinary tract infection (UTI) in your bladder. This ...

One of the most helpful tests in the evaluation of neurogenic bladder is called a urodynamic test. Urodynamic testing is also called a cystometrogram (CMG). In this test a very small catheter is ...

Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer is labor intensive and costly to manage. Owing to long-term survival rates and life-long monitoring and treatment, it is the most expensive cancer to manage in ...

In Part 1, I wrote about how cancers of the urinary tract present with the sign of "painless, yet intermittent" hematuria, ...

Bladder regeneration is a long-sought goal that could provide alternatives to cystoplasty using non-urological tissues. Regeneration might be achieved in different ways, such as seeding matrices with ...