What’s new, what’s treatable and why May — Women’s Health Month — is the perfect time to seek care for urinary incontinence.
For older women, behavioral therapy (BT) reduces overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms, with greater improvements seen in combination with transcutaneous tibial n ...
If bladder nerves are damaged from surgery or from a disease, then a patient often loses sensation and is unaware that their bladder is full. Should you run to the bathroom now? Or can you hold it ...
Aging brings changes we can see, like wrinkles and slower movement. It also brings quieter shifts — like lighter sleep or waking up more often at night. One issue many older adults experience — but ...
For women with idiopathic overactive bladder (iOAB), both magnetic stimulation (MStim) and transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS) plus bladder training (BT) are more effective than BT alone, ...
These everyday bladder habits can feel normal. That doesn't mean they are.
In a recent study published in Science Immunology, a group of researchers investigated how sensory nerve sprouting and mast cell activity, driven by nerve growth factor (NGF), contribute to persistent ...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the world’s most common bacterial maladies. Approximately 12 percent of men and roughly half of all women experience a UTI in their lifetime. Up to 44 percent ...
Each year, more than 400 million urinary tract infections occur in people around the globe. And researchers have long been puzzled by a medical mystery: Some women susceptible to recurrent UTIs ...