Drinking cranberry juice could help boost the antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) against drug resistant bacteria, a new study has found. Approximately half of all women in the UK will experience at least one UTI in their lifetime, causing pain or burning when urinating, a frequent need to wee and a high temperature. Most UTIs are caused by pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli bacteria , and the antibiotic fosfomycin is often prescribed as the first line of treatment . But the rise of antibiotic resistance makes the infection more difficult to treat. There is no evidence that cranberry juice alone can treat a UTI. However, new research has suggested it may lend a helping hand to antibiotics. Researchers exposed lab-grown strains of the bacteria that causes UTIs to cranberry juice and findings suggest that compounds in the juice makes resistant strains more sensitive to antibiotic treatment.…