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 Cranberries, the little red berries from North America, are not effective for curing urinary tract infections. This piece of information is bound to disappoint the women who have been swallowing cranberry capsules for years in the hope that it was. But, alas, this is what science shows. These results were published on October 27 in the prestigious medical journal JAMA. For the experiment, older women living in nursing homes were administered cranberry capsules for a year, while others were given a placebo pill. The comparison did not reveal any significant difference in the presence of bacteria in their urine. This work is the latest example of publication of a study yielding results that were the opposite of what was expected. In the editorial that was published in the same journal, a Canadian researcher acknowledges this disappointment and writes that cranberry once constituted a nice hope in the fight against urinary tract infections, but that it is now time to move on to somet...