Urologyxy

09/27/2025

Remembering Proteus mirabilis & Urinary Tract Infections. 🇺🇸🔬🧫
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4638163/

Proteus mirabilis is a Gram-negative bacterium which is well-known for its ability to robustly swarm across surfaces in a striking bulls’-eye pattern. Clinically, this organism is most frequently a pathogen of the urinary tract, particularly in ...

09/26/2025

Rationing Creates Reactions. Skip the MD & Go To The ER? 🇺🇸🏥🚑
https://time.com/7319387/health-insurance-us-emergency-room-prior-authorization/?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-daily-spotlight&_bhlid=fd233ea1726851f66e72b331a9a6497b4281556a

Prior authorizations are breaking the healthcare system.

09/25/2025

Outrageous 🤬 Rationing Of Incontinence Pads In Aged Care. 🇦🇺
https://hellocare.com.au/locked-cupboards-lost-dignity-carers-sound-alarm-on-incontinence-pad-rationing/ Thank you HelloCare for sharing!

Carers across Australia say continence pads in a large percentage of aged care homes are still rationed, locked away and treated like contraband. Six years on from the Royal Commission, little has changed.

09/24/2025

Are There Any Surprises? Classifying Symptoms In Elderly Home Healthcare Patients With Urinary Incontinence. 🇺🇸🏡🛌
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197457225004896

09/22/2025

An Unhealthy Combination. ⚠️ Drug Resistant UTI's 🧫💊 & Spinal Cord Injuries ♿️
https://blog.quickchange.com/blog/drug-resistant-utis-in-spinal-cord-injuries

A spinal cord injury (SCI) occurs when the spinal cord—the nerve highway between the brain and body—is damaged, often leading to lasting problems with movement, sensation, and organ control below the injury.

09/21/2025

You Have To Shave What? It Takes That Long? Just Say No To Condom Catheters. 🇺🇸🪒🙈
https://blog.quickchange.com/blog/how-to-put-on-a-condom-catheter-shaving-technique

A condom catheter, also called a male external catheter or pe**le sheath, is a non-invasive device worn over the p***s to collect urine.

09/20/2025

Safe Drugs Or No Drugs. Pick Your Poison ☠️. Drug Shortages, Quality Out Of Control, & Special Exemptions. 🇺🇸💊🇨🇳🇮🇳
https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-letter-fda-drug-import-bans?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content=feature

Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said they had “urgent concerns” about the agency’s oversight of foreign drugmakers and whether medications coming into the U.S. are safe.

09/18/2025

Not Just Australia? Is Rationing Coming To Aged Care Near You? 🇦🇺🏡✄
https://helloleaders.com.au/article/stop-gaslighting-aged-care-patients-arent-the-problem-rationing-and-red-tape-are?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hello-leaders-newsletter-17-09-2025 Thank you HelloCare for sharing!

Australia’s hospitals are bursting at the seams, with more than 2,400 older Australians stuck in beds they don’t need. The sector is calling for data-led reform and urgent collaboration to speed up discharges, expand home care, and tackle the uncertainty stalling new residential builds.

09/17/2025

Unclear Genetic Relationship In Nocturnal Enuresis
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40914839/

This study reinforces the genetic heterogeneity of PMNE and suggests it follows a polygenic and multifactorial inheritance pattern. Further research using whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing is needed to explore potential genetic contributors alongside environmental factors.

09/16/2025

BPH Treatment & Complications 🇷🇺🏥😷
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40937772/

Before surgical treatment, 192 (48.2%) patients underwent urodynamic studies including "filling cystometry" and "pressure-flow", to determine the bladder outlet obstruction index (BOOI) and detrusor overactivity (DO), which was confirmed in 82.8% of cases. The mean BOOI value was 72.1. Functional ou...

09/15/2025

Reducing Emergency Hospitalizion In Long Term Care Settings 🇺🇸🏥🚑
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https://www.nber.org/papers/w34235?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg18

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

09/14/2025

Check out our new blog discussing the relationship between urinary incontinence and depression based on extensive national health studies in Türkiye. It's crucial to understand how these conditions intersect for better health outcomes. Read more: https://wix.to/XBve8xh

AbstractBackground: Urinary incontinence (UI) and depression are prevalent conditions affecting millions globally and are significantly associated with various demographic, health, and socio-economic factors. This study examines the associations between UI and depression over a 14-year period using....