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 ...

Conservative measures are surprisingly effective. If they fail, drugs often help. A urologist outlines these and other steps primary-care clinicians can take. Mrs. B has been experiencing urinary ...

• conservative treatment, which includes lifestyle changes (such as weight loss) and exercises such as pelvic floor muscle training to improve bladder control; • medications, which calm the bladder ...

A range of other assessments besides the bladder pressure test work just as well in guiding treatment of female incontinence, researchers reported Saturday in The Lancet. Adobe stock/HealthDay A small ...

GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — It’s a topic most people don’t want to talk about, but about 13 million adults in the U.S. live with stress urinary incontinence. Female incontinence can be ...

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: ...

You sneeze, and instead of a polite “bless you”, your bladder loses control. A laugh turns into a dribble. A cough? Well, tissues are not the only thing getting used. If this sounds familiar, you ...

Urinary incontinence may be just as common in younger women who have never been pregnant as it is in women who have had children, according to a new Australian study. The researchers surveyed 1,002 ...