Urinary Incontinence OAB News
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Incontinence Surgery Helps Cut Patient Costs
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.
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Caffeine and Bladder Problems Linked
Excess caffeine increases the likelihood of urinary incontinence in women, according to a new study that echoes the findings of previous research.
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Depression Linked to Urinary Incontinence in Men
Major depression, hypertension, enlarged prostates, and older age are all associated with an increased risk of urinary incontinence in men, a large study suggests.
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Nighttime Urination Linked to Higher Death Risk
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.
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Stress Incontinence Sling Surgery: Which Is Best?
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.
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Low Vitamin D Levels Tied to Incontinence
A new study suggests vitamin D deficiency may contribute to pelvic floor disorders like urinary and fecal incontinence.
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Mind Over Bladder May Lessen Leaks
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.
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Muscle Cells Cut Urinary Incontinence
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.
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Weight Loss May Reduce Incontinence
For obese and overweight women, losing weight can dramatically reduce episodes of incontinence, according to a new study.
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FDA OKs First Overactive Bladder Gel Gelnique
The FDA has approved Gelnique, the first and only topical gel to treat overactive bladder.
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New Drug Approved for Overactive Bladder
The FDA has approved a new prescription drug called Toviaz to treat overactive bladder (OAB) in adults.
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Women, Sports, and Stress Incontinence
Urinary incontinence, or leaking urine, is a common, embarrassing female problem that keeps women from working out or playing their favorite sport.
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Nearly 1/4 of Women Have Pelvic Floor Disorder
Nearly a quarter of women have at least one pelvic floor disorder, and prevalence increases with age.
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Study: Female Incontinence is Common
Pelvic floor disorders (stress urinary incontinence or anal incontinence, overactive bladder, and pelvic organ prolapse) are common in women, experts report.
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Panel Recommends Curb in Episiotomy
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.
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Hysterectomy May Up Incontinence Risk
Having a hysterectomy appears to increase a woman's risk of developing stress incontinence, according to the largest study ever to examine the issue.
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Stem Cells Help Urinary Incontinence?
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.
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Urinary Incontinence Surgeries Studied
For women with urinary stress incontinence, sling surgery may trump Burch colposuspension, doctors say in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Stem Cells May Help Treat Incontinence
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.
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Drug Combo Treats Overactive Bladder
Some men with overactive bladder may benefit from treatment with two drugs instead of one, a study shows.
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Check Urinary Incontinence
Researchers have designed a three-question quiz to help diagnose urinary incontinence in women.
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Biofeedback for Overactive Bladder?
A new study shows that older women with overactive bladders (urge incontinence) benefited from learning biofeedback techniques.
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Surgery May Avoid Urinary Incontinence
For women with pelvic-organ prolapse, getting two operations at the same time may help avoid new cases of stress incontinence.
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Emotional Toll From Overactive Bladder
Having an overactive bladder makes it more difficult to perform daily activities, yet many people don't consider the problem a valid medical condition, according to a new study.
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Urine Leakage Not Due to Childbirth
Reasearch claims childbirth has nothing to do with whether a woman suffers urinary incontinence after menopause.
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