Many of our present medicines are derived directly or indirectly from higher plants. While
several classic plant drugs have lost much ground to synthetic competitors, others have …

Bacteriuria is a term that simply means bacteria present in the urine. Unless otherwise
stated, bacteriuria as used in this article will mean significant bacteriuria, a quantitative count …

Urinary tract infections are frequently encountered medical complications of pregnancy. The
three types of urinary tract infection in pregnancy are asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) …

Strategies to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs) are used in a wide variety of clinical
scenarios (Table 1). Patients in whom true prophylaxis may be indicated include …

BACKGROUND. The purpose of this study was to determine the most cost-effective strategy
for managing sus pected urinary tract infections in otherwise healthy adult women …

PURPOSE: Decreased local immunity to uropathogenic bacteria may be a factor
predisposing women to recurrent urinary tract infections. Our phase I study demonstrated the …

Many parents insist that their children eat a hot breakfast on a cold winter morning. Some
people eat a small amount of poison ivy to produce immunity-and end up in the Emergency …

Objective: To assess a possible association of urinary tract infection (UTI) during pregnancy
and cerebral palsy in offspring. Design: Secondary analysis of a case‐control study using …

Cranberry: botany and horticulture Page 232 Cranberry: Botany and Horticulture Teryl R.
Roper Department of Horticulture University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin 53706 …

The use of plants as medicine predates even the existence of humans: great apes
consumed specific medicinal plants when they are In Eisenberg's 1990 study, herbal …