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If you are alive and in possession of a vagina, chances are you will have a urinary tract infection at some point in your life. UTIs are one of the most common bacterial infections, which might lead you to assume that modern medicine has nearly perfected its treatment options for this uncomfortable and potentially dangerous condition.
Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.
“If you have a run-of-the-mill urinary tract infection, you tend to get a lower-grade antibiotic,” Paul Garofolo, the co-founder and CEO of pharmaceutical company Locus Biosciences, told The Daily Beast. “And nowadays, 50 percent of the time you’re back in the doctor’s office within 30 to 90 days saying, ‘Hey, I got another one.’ And you’re pissed.”
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