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2026 News Articles
Chronic urinary tract infection finally recognised in children
Linkedin post by Natasha Robinson, Health Editor, The Australian, January 2026
New database to target chronic UTIs – a long-overlooked condition that may begin in childhood
By Lulsa Low, University of Sydney, Australia, January 2026
Databse to revolutionise UTI care for children
By Natasha Robinson, The Australian, Australia, January 2026
2025 News Articles
Why UTIs are getting so much harder to treat
By Natasha K Boyd, The Cut, US, June 2025
The women behind the fight for chronic UTI recognition after years of suffering (or see PDF)
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, May 2025
Chronic urinary tract infections – position statement by Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ) (or see PDF)
By USANZ Board of Directors, Australia, February 2025
2024 News Articles
It’s time to say goodbye to frequent UTIs
By Paula Goodyer, Citro, Australia, August 2024
It’s time we recognised chronic urinary tract infection
By Helen O’Connell, Aniruddh Deshpande, Natasha Robinson, Magdelena Simonis and Steve Robson, Insight+, Australia, August 2024
Doctors demand chronic UTI strategy with up to four million sufferers in UK
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, July 2024
Aussie women struggling to have chronic UTIs treated
Sarah Harris, Producer Angus Llewellyn, The Project, Network Ten, Australia, June 2024
Agony and the urge to pee: the growing evidence giving hope to chronic UTI sufferers
Sharlotte Thou and Melissa Davey, The Guardian, Australia, June 2024
The women hitting back against medical misogyny
Sarah Harris, Producer Kate Mellis, The Project, Network Ten, Australia, May 2024
‘Peeing hot shards of glass’: Struggle to treat chronic UTIs
By Zoe Madden-Smith, Re: News, New Zealand, April 2024,
UTI? There’s a spray for that – radio interview with immunologist Dr Malcolm Starkey, Monash University (starts 20:20)
Presenter Dave Marchese, Hack, Triple J, Australia, April 2024
Chronic UTIs and test flaws overlooked in ‘archaic’ guidelines: urologists(or see PDF)
By Sarah Simpkins, AusDoc, Australia, February 2024
‘Battler’s disease’: UTI sufferers’ plight relegated by medicos (or see PDF)
By Natasha Robinson, The Australian, Australia, February 2024
Hope for women of end to chronic urinary tract infection pain
By Natasha Robinson, The Australian, Australia, February 2024
Why do I keep getting urinary tract infections? And why are chronic UTIs so hard to treat?
By Iris Lim, The Conversation, Australia, February 2024
3 days of antibiotics from pharmacists could lead to chronic UTIs, experts warn
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, February 2024
2023 NEWS ARTICLES
This researcher is trying to bring UTI treatment into the 21st century
By Vivian Ho, TeenVogue, November 2023
`Hidden´ bacteria could explain chronic urinary tract infections
Daily Mail, UK, November 2023
Three-day course of antibiotics ‘inadequate’ for UTIs as bacteria can hide in bladder wall, study finds
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, November 2023
Children with life-altering chronic UTIs having to be homeschooled over lack of treatment in UK
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, September 2023
Australian mum forced to fly 17,500km to treat common infection
By Raffaella Ciccarelli, 9News, Australia, April 2023
UTI sufferers still being denied treatment by GPs despite rules changing eight weeks ago
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, April 2023
Women struggling with chronic UTIs in Ireland and devolved nations forced to travel miles for treatment
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, April 2023
‘Nothing has worked’: Women feel ‘failed’ by UTI testing system
By Stacey Foster, itv News, UK, April 2023
Chronic UTI, the hidden health crisis ruining women’s lives and on Spotify
By Connie Dimsdale and Molly Blackall, iPodcast, UK, March 2023
UTIs: What are the burning issues?
By Dr Annie Joseph, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSACP), republished February 2023
Chronic UTI sufferers face mental health crises after being ‘dismissed and gaslighted’ for years
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, February 2023
Medical misogyny is failing women with chronic urinary tract infections
By Megan Warren-Lister, Open Democracy, UK, February 2023
Why aren’t there better treatments for cystitis?
By Christine Ro, BBC, UK, January 2023
Chronic UTI patients are waiting up to 12 years for a diagnosis, specialists warn
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, January 2023
2022 NEWS ARTICLES
The UTI Documentary
By Rita Maria Conry, Agnes Arnold-Forster and Gemma Duncan, UTIdocumentary.com, UK, 2022
Chronic UTIs Plague Women Across The UK – Why Does No One Care?
By Agnes Arnold-Forster, Refinery29, UK, August 2022
Brisbane woman in extreme pain for six years as ‘common’ infection went undiagnosed
By Raffaella Ciccarelli, 9News, Australia, August 2022
Chronic UTI ‘game changer’ drug set to be made available on prescription across the NHS for the first time
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, August 2022
Chronic UTI: Children stuck in cycles of infection for years as Nice guidelines still ignore testing failures
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, August 2022
Chronic UTI patients ‘alienated’ and ‘despairing’ after condition is left out of Women’s Health Strategy
By Connie Dimsdale and Poppy Wood, inews, UK, July 2022
Chronic UTI infections: NHS finally recognises debilitating condition exists in online advice for patients
By Connie Dimsdale, inews, UK, March 2022
Health charities warn women with UTIs are being patronised and not believed when seeking medical help as new research reveals medical misogyny
By Amy Beecham,  Stylist UK, February 2022
Dismissed, ignored and ridiculed:Â How doctors are letting women down when it comes to UTIs
By Hannah Fern, The Independent, United Kingdom, January 2022
2021-2020 NEWS ARTICLES
‘The treatment is failing people’: Campaigners call for better diagnosis of urinary tract infections
by Amrit Birdi, ITV News Central, United Kingdom, December 2021
Chronic UTI sufferer, 23, tells how 5-year battle to find treatment left her housebound and needing morphine
By Molly Blackall, ITV News Central, United Kingdom, October 2021
Chronic UTI crisis: Treatment and testing failures leave thousands of women with infections that last years
By Molly Blackall, Jasmine Anderrson, Hatty Collier, INews, United Kingdom, October 2021
How to cope if you keep getting UTIs: Women with chronic urinary tract infection share what they wish they’d known earlier on
By Nana Baah, Vice, London, September 2021
UTIs: What are the burning issues?
By Dr Annie Joseph, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSACP), September 2021
My daughter was one of thousands of Australians let down by inadequate UTI testing
By Deirdre Pinto, The Guardian, Opinion, Australia, May 2021
Rapid Response: Re: Uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women
By Chronic UTI Australia, The BMJ, United Kingdom, April 2021
Rapid Response: Re: Uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women
By Emeritus Professor James Malone-Lee, The BMJ, United Kingdom, April 2021
Confronting the urinalysis tyrant
By Emeritus Professor James Malone-Lee, BJGP Life, March 2021
Why women’s agonising UTIs are still being misdiagnosed
By Lois Rogers, The Daily Mail, United Kingdom, January 2020
2019 NEWS ARTICLES
Burning Questions: UTIs are meant to be easy to treat. So they have they become a reoccurring nightmare for so many women?
By Penny Carroll, Australian Women’s Health Magazine, December 2019
Rise in persistent UTIs could be linked to antibiotics crackdown
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian, United Kingdom, October 2019
The burning question: Why can’t doctors help end the misery of urine infections?
By Linda Geddes, The Daily Mail, United Kingdom, September 2019
Is it time to rethink midstream urine culture for UTI diagnosis?
By Dr Evelyn Lewin, NewsGP, Australia, June 2019
‘UTI tests could be missing a huge number of women with infections, experts say’
By Caroline Zielinkski, ABC News, Australia, June 2019
‘UTI Treatment is in Crisis: The way doctors treat urinary tract infections may be wrong, and antibiotic resistance is growing’
By Dana G Smith, Medium, United States, April 2019
‘Antibiotic resistance plan to fight urgent global threat’
BBC, United Kingdom, January 2019
2018 NEWS ARTICLES
‘UTI test often fails to detect infection, say researchers: Study suggests standard test, widely used since 1950s, does not work for chronic sufferers’
By Sarah Boseley – The Guardian, United Kingdom, December 2018
‘Why won’t my UTI go away? 4 things to know about chronic UTI’
By Suzannah Weiss – Bustle, United States, December 2018
‘Urinary tract infections: How they’re prevented, diagnosed and treated’
By Jo Khan – ABC, Australia, October 2018
‘In the name of science: Australian chronic UTI suffferer, Imelda Wilde talks about her experience’
By Maiken Scott and Jacqueline Sophia – The Pulse Podcast, WHYY, United States, October 2018
(Imelda’s commentary begins at 33:40)
‘New bladder microbiome discovery could change the way we treat UTIs’
By Olivia Willis – ABC, Australia, June 2018
‘Women’s urine is NOT sterile: Contrary to conventional belief, scientists have now discovered the bladder is filled with bacteria – both toxic and beneficial’
By Jack Flanagan – Mail Online, United Kingdom, June 2018
‘Bacteria have made a home in your bladder. What do they do?’
By Liam Mannix – Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, May 2018
‘Diagnosing UTIs is a dog’s breakfast, and that’s affecting women: an interview with Professor James Malone-Lee’
By Anna Maria Tremonti – The Current, CBC Radio One, Canada, April 2018
Rapid Response: ‘Urinary infections are complex and hard to treat’
By Chronic UTI Australia, The BMJ, United Kingdom, December 2017
2017 NEWS ARTICLES
‘Urinary infections are complex and hard to treat’
By Professor James Malone-Lee, published in the British Medical Journal, December 2017
‘New UTI test detects more bacteria than standard test’
Healio, United States, June 2017
‘Oh my UTI: Everything you need to know about Urinary Tract Infections and how to battle through’
By Suzanne Harrington – Independent, Ireland, May 2017
‘UTI test used by GPs gives wrong results in at least a fifth of cases, study claims’
By Hannah Devlin – The Guardian, United Kingdom, April 2017
‘Women are being denied antibiotics for cystitis because GPs are failing to spot a third of cases, study finds’
By Victoria Allen – Daily Mail, United Kingdom, April 2017
‘Everything you ever wanted to know about urinary tract infections’
By David Cox – The Guardian, United Kingdom, April 2017
2016 NEWS ARTICLES
‘GP guidance on UTI testing should undergo NICE review, says health minister’
By Caroline Price – Pulse, United Kingdom, November 2016
‘How to beat the misery of chronic cystitis: Thousands are left in constant agony as antibiotics fail to kill their infections’
By Jo Waters – Daily Mail, United Kingdom, November 2016
‘Snakes and bladders: how patients saved a pioneering medic cast down by NHS rules’
By Ysenda Maxtone Graham – The Spectator, United Kingdom, October 2016
‘Doctors dismiss and mistreat women suffering from life wrecking urinary tract infections, consultant says’
By Martyn Halle – Daily Mail, United Kingdom, August 2016
EARLIER
‘Common test for bladder infections misses too many cases’
By Nancy Shute – NPR, United States, November 2013