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 ...

Generally, the term urinary incontinence refers to a person's loss of the ability to control his or her bladder. Though the condition has a variety of sub-classifications -- stress urinary ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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.

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, ...

Wellspect HealthCare, a global provider of continence care solutions, today announced the U.S. launch of the innovative ...

Professor, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Head of Department of Urogynaecology, UNSW Sydney This article is part of our series examining women’s hidden health conditions. You can read about ...

(HealthDay) -- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is independently associated with urgency/mixed urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms in female veterans, according to a study published in the June ...