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From conception (and arguably pre-conception) to death, every human being encounters a wide variety of environmental stressors, such as pollution, tobacco smoke, the sun’s rays, pharmaceutical agents, contaminants in water and some constituents of food. No one is exempt from these stressors – after all, you cannot avoid your own metabolism, which is also …

Research we’re watching Published: September, 2019 Infections — especially those in the urinary tract, known as UTIs — may raise the risk of a stroke, a new study finds. Researchers examined the electronic medical records of more than 191,000 stroke patients to see if they’d been hospitalized or gone to an emergency room for an …

Urinary incontinence is a problem that many women suffer with. Although there are men who experience this condition as well, it is much more prevalent in women. According to statistics there are approximately 25 million Americans who have some form of urinary incontinence and over 200 million people worldwide. 80% of these people are women. …

For generations, urinary tract infections, one of the world’s most common ailments, have been easily and quickly cured with a simple course of antibiotics. But there is growing evidence that the infections, which afflict millions of Americans a year, mostly women, are increasingly resistant to these medicines, turning a once-routine diagnosis into one that is …