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1. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · India Sturgis

   My chronic UTI agony: Why women are affected and treatment struggles (opens the original)

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   On her 49th birthday, Lisa Sawers woke up to a burning, stinging sensation – ‘like being stung by a swarm of wasps’, she says. It radiated from her bladder, throughout her pelvis and down her legs. There was also a familiar, unrelenting pressure to urinate. Since her 20s, Lisa had experienced urinary tract infections (UTIs), which can affect the kidneys, ureters (the tubes that lead to the bladder), bladder or urethra (which carries urine out of the body). Caused by bacteria (usually E. coli), t

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2. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · India Sturgis

   Osteoporosis drug that 'rewires' nerves to banish chronic back pain (opens the original)

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   Does a hormone we produce naturally hold the key to stopping chronic back pain? Recent research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US seems to indicate so, offering the possibility of a new treatment for the condition. The study on mice, published in the Journal of Bone Research, suggested a treatment using parathyroid hormone (PTH) could tackle many types of back pain at their biological root cause. PTH is a hormone produced by the parathyroid glands – four pea-sized glands i

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