Medical devices can help prevent sepsis and the rise of AMR

“With between 15 and 20% of cases in high income countries being caused by urinary tract infection, and with resistance to first-line treatment among the… Read More

Are women on the AMR frontline due to poor UTI & prenatal urine specimen collection?

Failure to ensure midstream urine collection for urinary tract infection (UTI) and prenatal urine collection combined with failure of clinicians to identify problem bacteria before… Read More

Accelerate to Excel: why does only 2% of investment reach female founders?

The Entrepreneur’s Network/Beauhurst Accelerate to Excel report highlights the woeful 2% of investment reaching female founders. Female-founded businesses often last longer and… Read More

Womens UTI and maternal health: fact sheet

Global guidance specifies midstream urine (MSU) for Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) and prenatal screening, yet there is no protocol to ensure guidelines are met, leading… Read More

Scandal of ignored guidelines impacting women’s health.

The scandal of ignored guidelines for urine collection to diagnose UTI / prenatal screening Unreliable diagnoses / Unnecessary antibiotics for millions of women /… Read More

Luto Talks: Carolyn McKelvie interviews Giovanna Forte on International Women’s Day 2023

The Pacemaker Podcast USA: Roman Stolyarov finds out about the how and why of Peezy Midstream

Our first update for a while – welcome to September’s News Review!

Having survived the C19 years, not without uncertainty over our future, we are thrilled to deliver good news in the form of new distribution relationships… Read More

Peter Woodcock, Consulting Financial Director rejoins the Forte Medical Team

In 2008 our coveted Finance Director Peter Woodcock moved to France, which at that time made seamless team working less than convenient. Thanks to the… Read More

UTIs still being diagnosed by 140 year old test

This is an important article by Alexander Edwards and Sarah Needs from Reading University. UTI diagnoses are woefully out of date. Here at Forte… Read More