The urethra is the tube that drains urine from the bladder. In men, the urethra is a long tube inside of the penis. In women, it’s shorter and located inside of the pelvis. Pain in the urethra may be ...

Urethral prolapse, also known as urethrocele, is a very rare condition most often found in prepubescent girls. The likelihood of this condition happening is about 1 out of every 5,000 girls. Urethral ...

If you're a woman or have female anatomy, your chance of getting a urinary tract infection is high. Some experts say there's a 50% chance that women will get one in their lifetime, with many having ...

The urethra is a tube that carries urine from the bladder so it can be expelled from the body. Usually the urethra is wide enough for urine to flow freely through it. When the urethra narrows, it can ...

Ms Adeniran noted that urinary tract infections affect the organs responsible for producing and passing urine, including the ...

In a recent study published in Cell Reports Medicine journal, researchers in the United States (US) used a shotgun metagenomic approach to characterize urethral microbiomes of specimens from healthy ...

A kidney stone becomes a serious problem when it travels through the urinary tract and gets stuck in the urethra, the final and narrowest pathway through which urine is excreted. While many kidney ...

For those of you following our series on foreign bodies in the body, fasten your seat belts cause this ride is about to get bumpy. It takes quite a lot to faze Dr. Jamie Wells (and her peers), but for ...