Urinary Incontinence OAB News

Five boys unable to urinate due to pelvic injury remain cured up to 6 years after getting new lab-grown urethras.

An online survey of more than 1,100 women with overactive bladder has found that middle-aged women are more prone to express annoyance and frustration about their symptoms than embarrassment or stigmatization.

Excess caffeine increases the likelihood of urinary incontinence in women, according to a new study that echoes the findings of previous research.

After having incontinence surgery, women report spending much less money on products and services to manage their symptoms than they did before surgery, a study shows.

Major depression, hypertension, enlarged prostates, and older age are all associated with an increased risk of urinary incontinence in men, a large study suggests.

Men and women who have to get up two or more times a night to urinate appear to be at an increased risk of death, researchers say.

The 2 most popular sling surgeries for stress incontinence are equally effective -- but patients should choose based on the side effects they'd find least bothersome.

A new study suggests vitamin D deficiency may contribute to pelvic floor disorders like urinary and fecal incontinence.

The mind may offer a new path to better bladder control and a way to sidestep some of the embarrassing side effects of overactive bladder, a new study suggests.

Study patients whose stress urinary incontinence wasn't helped by standard treatments got relief when their own thigh-muscle cells were injected into their bladder sphincters.

For obese and overweight women, losing weight can dramatically reduce episodes of incontinence, according to a new study.

The FDA has approved Gelnique, the first and only topical gel to treat overactive bladder.

The FDA has approved a new prescription drug called Toviaz to treat overactive bladder (OAB) in adults.

Urinary incontinence, or leaking urine, is a common, embarrassing female problem that keeps women from working out or playing their favorite sport.

Nearly a quarter of women have at least one pelvic floor disorder, and prevalence increases with age.

Pelvic floor disorders (stress urinary incontinence or anal incontinence, overactive bladder, and pelvic organ prolapse) are common in women, experts report.

A routine procedure performed on up to 1 million American women per year may be needlessly contributing to incontinence in those women, an expert panel concludes. The procedure is known as an episiotomy.

Having a hysterectomy appears to increase a woman's risk of developing stress incontinence, according to the largest study ever to examine the issue.

Injections of stem cells and other cells obtained from a woman's own body can treat stress urinary incontinence with dramatically better results than conventional collagen injections, according to a new study from Austria.

For women with urinary stress incontinence, sling surgery may trump Burch colposuspension, doctors say in the New England Journal of Medicine.

For the more than 13 million women in the U.S. who suffer from stress urinary incontinence, stem cells derived from their own muscle cells may improve the condition, a study shows.

Some men with overactive bladder may benefit from treatment with two drugs instead of one, a study shows.

Researchers have designed a three-question quiz to help diagnose urinary incontinence in women.

A new study shows that older women with overactive bladders (urge incontinence) benefited from learning biofeedback techniques.

For women with pelvic-organ prolapse, getting two operations at the same time may help avoid new cases of stress incontinence.