Jezebel: Utis

Worth It: A Little Solace For Your Miserable Urinary Tract

Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:00:00 EDT

Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our daily recommendation of random things that we've actually spent our own money on. These are the things we buy regularly or really like, things we'd actually tell our friends about. And now we're telling you. More »

Why Didn't We Learn About UTIs In Sex Ed?

Anna North — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:44:00 EDT

If you are a lady who has sex, you probably know how to deal with urinary tract infections. But chances are, you didn't learn that in sex ed. More »

UTIs Harder To Treat, Thanks To Animals

Anna North — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:30:00 EDT

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria from farm animals may cause increasingly hard-to-treat urinary tract infections in humans, because different bacterial populations can actually swap resistance genes. Just another reason to take your cranberry pills. [ScienceDaily] More »

UTI Vaccine Will Be Available In 3-5 Years

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00 EDT

Today, CBS News reported that researchers have developed a vaccine—in the form of a nasal spray—that will prevent urinary tract infections. Sanctioned drug-snorting and unhurt-y pee? I must've died, because this is party girl heaven. More »

Tales Of My Vagina, Or Why Women's Health Is Totally F*cking Unfair

Anna North — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:00:00 EST

I just spent two and a half hours and $40 on my vagina, and I did not even get my pubes waxed into a cute shape. No, I had a yeast infection — and here's why I'm enraged. More »

The Mr. Bubble Generation

Anna Holmes — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:50:00 EDT

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Researchers at the University of Utah have...

Maria — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:45:00 EDT

Researchers at the University of Utah have found that gastroschisis, a serious birth defect in which infants are born with their intestines and organs outside of their abdomen, is linked to STDs and UTIs contracted just before or during pregnancy. Although the causes for gastroschisis are not known, women in the study who had contracted STDs and UTIs were four times more likely to give birth to infants with the defect. Gastroschisis is also linked to age, with women under 20 more likely to give birth to children with the defect than women over 25. STDs and UTIs are said to be contracted by 1 in 4 teens and 6 out of 6 Jezebels (kidding). [UPI] More »

Judge Judy And The Case Of The Urinary Tract Infection

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Yesterday on Judge Judy, a woman was suing a teenager and her mother for medical bills that the teen incurred while she was staying at the plaintiff's home. The teen was dating the plaintiff's son and got a nasty UTI — she says it's a chronic problem that "runs in the family" — so the plaintiff took her to the emergency room. The teen's mother didn't want to pay the medical bills because she would've preferred the girl just drank water and cranberry juice. JJ was not pleased with the defendants, and said so, asserting that they are "idiots, which is probably congenital too!" Clip above. More »