Urinary incontinence is the leakage of urine due to loss of bladder control. The condition is common, impacting up to 50 percent of women. While urinary incontinence occurs more often in older women, ...

Urinary incontinence or bladder leakage occurs when urine (pee) comes out of your bladder when you do not want it to (involuntarily). It is more common in women for the following reasons: ...

Hardly a week goes by without advertisements by attorneys on T.V. inviting patients to sue for complications of urinary incontinence surgery; yet, surgery for urinary incontinence is effective and its ...

Women’s health has a long history of being sidelined—that’s no great secret. Women’s health issues cloaked in embarrassment are uniquely at risk of being overlooked or ignored. Urinary (UI) and fecal ...

Women with ongoing urinary incontinence could avoid invasive bladder pressure tests, as new research shows that a range of non-invasive assessments work just as well in guiding treatment. Led by ...

Women contemplating pregnancy are rarely warned by their OB-GYNs that having a baby can wreak havoc “down there,” but it does. Incontinence can have a negative effect on a woman's physical, ...

The Fourth International Consultation on Incontinence recently redefined the signs, symptoms, urodynamic observations and conditions associated with lower urinary tract symptoms and urodynamic studies ...

(HealthDay)—Effective treatment options exist for women with urinary incontinence that don't involve medication or surgery, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians.

Approximately 10% to 40% of nulliparous women in Sweden reported having urinary incontinence. All aspects of urinary incontinence have been reported in nulliparous women, with increasing prevalence ...

To date limited data exists that addresses the impact of urinary incontinence on sexual function. In the present study, we assessed sexual functions in patients with urinary incontinence and compared ...

Incontinence may not be the usual topic of discussion at parties and get-togethers, but it can cause problems for more people than suspected. "Generally, when we hear the word incontinence, we think ...