Incontinence in Medical News

Fecal incontinence and quality of life

Fecal incontinence (FI) is a normal part of aging, or the perception that no treatment is available. Doctors may fail to comprehend patient hints about diarrhea and FI or may be reluctant to ask about fecal leakage, perhaps because of their own embarrassment or the perception that FI is a trivial ...

First Coast Medicare to Provide Case by Case Reimbursement for the Renessa(R) Treatment for Incontinence in Women

NEWARK, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Novasys Medical, Inc., a developer of innovative therapies in women's health, announced today that as of July 1, 2009, First Coast Service Options, Inc. ("First Coast"), a large regional Medicare carrier serving over 3 million beneficiaries in Florida, Puert...

New B-SURE Pads Are The Ideal Alternative Product To Use For Mild Fecal Incontinence - Small, Discrete, Absorbent - Order Online At www.birchwoodmedical.com

Now there's an alternative product to deal with mild fecal incontinence instead of bulky pads or diapers. The innovative product is B-SURE® Anal Leakage Pads. These pads have a unique shape so they fit in place without tape, pins or other fastening devices. Soft, smooth and lint free, once in...

Bringing Incontinence Out of the Bathroom and Into the Spotlight

Men's Health Network, Us TOO International and SCA Personal Care North America , Through its TENA(R) Brand, Team Up to Get Men Talking with National Online, Offline and Grassroots Education Initiatives PHILADELPHIA, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- While up to 3.5 million men in the United States...

Delaware Urologic Associate's, Dr. Peter J. Muench, Presents Advances in Incontinence Treatment with a New Perspective and Outlook

With all of the new treatments available for incontinence nowadays, an effective and easy solution is within reach for men and women struggling with incontinence. The main roadblock to that solution might just be the patient himself, by minimizing the severity of his condition. Dr. Peter Muench o...

Collagen injections can help some incontinence patients when surgery fails, researcher finds

DALLAS March 17, 2009 Collagen injections can benefit women who still suffer from stress urinary incontinence (SUI) even after urethral or periurethral surgery, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found. "Patients with persistent or recurrent incontinence often do not wish to unde...

'Stay Dry' tested to help men with incontinence problems from prostate cancer treatments

CLEVELANDFollowing surgery and radiation treatments for prostate cancer, most men suffer some degree of incontinence. For approximately 14 percent of these men, the problem lingers five years later. Improving the lives of these men is the goal of a new "Stay Dry" intervention being tested by A...

Aetna Now Covers Novasys Medical's Renessa(R) Treatment for Incontinence in Women

NEWARK, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Novasys Medical, Inc., a developer of innovative therapies in women's health, announced today that Aetna, one of the nation's leading health insurers with over 17 million members, is now covering the non-surgical Renessa treatment for stress urinary incontin...

Weight loss reduces incontinence in obese women, UCSF study shows

Behavioral weight-loss programs can be an effective way to reduce urinary incontinence in women who are overweight or obese, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. Volunteer participants in the Program to Reduce Incontinence by Diet and Exercise ...

Weight Loss Reduces Incontinence In Obese Women, UCSF Study Shows

Behavioral weight-loss programs can be an effective way to reduce urinary incontinence in women who are overweight or obese, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. (Vocus) January 28, 2009 -- Behavioral weight-loss progra...

Weight Loss Helps Incontinence

Losing 8% of body weight almost halves the number of episodes, study finds,,,, WEDNESDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- If you're among the millions of women who suffer from urinary incontinence, losing weight might just ease your symptoms, a new study suggests. Published in the Jan. ...

Birchwood Laboratories Expands B-SURE™ Incontinence and Personal Care Product Line™; Three New Products Added Including B-SURE Fresh 'n Go™, B-SURE Bottom Balm™ and B-SURE Traveler™

Newly expanded B-Sure Incontinence and Personal Care product line by Birchwood Laboratories has the very latest solution for managing mild anal incontinence and for everyday personal care. Designed for active lifestyles, these new products provide rectal, vaginal, and perineal cleanliness while r...

Dual treatment of incontinence and dementia associated with functional decline

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Older nursing home residents who took medications for dementia and incontinence at the same time had a 50 percent faster decline in function than those who were being treated only for dementia, according to a study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine ...

Black women have urinary incontinence less than half as often as white women

ANN ARBOR, Mich. The good news for black women: They have less than half the chance of developing urinary incontinence as do white women, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System. The bad news: When they get it, the condition tends to be worse than in white women....

Kaiser Permanente Study Shows One-Third of Women Have Overactive Bladder, Incontinence or Other Pelvic Floor Disorders

Researchers Determine Age Has No Significant Bearing on these Disorders and Urge Physicians to Question Patients about Symptoms OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study by Kaiser Permanente found that one-third of women suffer from one or more pelvic floor disorders, which i...

Hysterectomy May Boost Incontinence Risk

When done to treat benign conditions, procedure more than doubled the odds, study found THURSDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Women who undergo hysterectomies for benign conditions more than double their risk of needing subsequent surgery for stress urinary incontinence, a new study fi...

Beaumont Launches 1st U.S. Adult Human Stem Cell Study for Stress Urinary Incontinence

Stem cells harvested from the patient's leg are used to strengthen weak muscles that can lead to urinary leakage. Royal Oak, Mich. (PRWEB) March 10, 2009 -- Urologists at Beaumont Hospital ( http://www.beaumonthospitals.com ) are first in the United States to treat stre...

The National Association For Continence and The HealthCentral Network Form Alliance to Develop New Online Resources for Patients Coping with Incontinence

ARLINGTON, Va., and CHARLESTON, S.C., May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association For Continence (NAFC) (http://www.nafc.org ) and The HealthCentral Network, Inc. (http://www.HealthCentral.com ) announced today that NAFC Executive Director Nancy Muller will join HealthCentral's...

Astellas/GlaxoSmithKline's Vesicare Has Advantages Over Pfizer's Detrol LA/Detrusitol XL in Reducing Episodes of Urge Urinary Incontinence

Superior Side-Effect Profile Earns Vesicare Gold Standard Status Over Sales-Leading Detrol LA/Detrusitol XL, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and...

NIH panel seeks to dispel stigma associated with fecal and urinary incontinence

An independent panel convened this week by the NIH found that fewer than half of individuals experiencing fecal or urinary incontinencethe inability to control bowel movements or urination, respectivelyreport their symptoms to healthcare providers without being prompted. The secrecy and distress s...

Removal of uterus increases risk of urinary incontinence

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown that hysterectomy a common operation involving the removal of the uterus greatly increases the risk of urinary incontinence. Their results, which come from a nationwide study, are presented in The Lancet. Hyster...

New male sling procedure helps prostate cancer survivors who suffer from urinary incontinence

DALLAS Aug. 29, 2007 Michael Yarborough, a 58-year-old business owner from Waxahachie, Texas, was fortunate. A routine check-up three years ago revealed prostate cancer, but a side effect of his successful surgery was driving him nuts. After surgery to remove the cancer, I started experiencin...

Impotence and Incontinence Greatly Reduced With New Prostate Cancer Treatment

Up to 79% preservation of potency and less than 2% incontinence are the striking results of a clinical study in which over 300 men received an innovative treatment for prostate cancer. HDR (high dose rate) brachytherapy in combination with an innovative new image-guidance technology was shown to b...

Quick, Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

Thousands of men facing surgical removal of the prostate due to cancer may someday have one less thing to worry about: post-surgical urinary incontinence. That's because a team of expert urologic surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has devised a simple, e...

Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

Those men who are facing the surgical removal of the prostate due to cancer may hope that a day will come when they need not worry about the post-surgical urinary incontinence. That's because a team of expert urologic surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center h...

Sling Surgery Better Than Burch for Treating Stress Incontinence in Women

In the largest and most rigorous U.S. trial comparing two traditional operations for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women, a team of urologists and urogynecologists supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that a sling procedure helps more women achieve dryness than the...

Link Between Childbirth and Stress Incontinence Established

An increase among women electing to have caesarean sections in recent years has been due in large part to a concern that giving birth vaginally will lead to a prolapse bladder// and uterus in later life, and the issue has been hotly debated in the medical community. New research from the Univ...

Is Prior Testing Necessary For Diagnosis And Treatment Of Fecal Incontinence (FI) ?

Fecal incontinence (FI), describes a condition in which there is involuntary discharge of bowel contents.// FI sufferers deal with significant quality of life issues and their condition often remains undiagnosed. An article published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology highlights the ...

Exertion Incontinence - A Common Postnatal Problem

According to a new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet, almost quarter of all mothers have problems with exertion incontinence, one year after childbirth.// However, despite many physical ailments, new mothers have better self-rated health than other women in the same age group. In her t...

Stem Cells offer Hope for Urinary Incontinence Cure

It is estimated that nearly 15 million Americans suffer Urinary incontinence and this news will certainly come as major relief. According to a recent finding//, medical specialists have been able to cure urinary incontinence in most of the patients with injections made from the patients’ own muscle...

Two-In One Approach To Prevent Incontinence After Prolapse Surgery

Surgeons have now found a new surgical approach termed as Burch colposuspension to prevent urinary incontinence, resulting in involuntary loss of urine//. It is a post operative complication of pelvic surgery done for correction of prolapse, a condition in which the vagina and the neighboring struc...

Women Got Rid Off Incontinence After The Prolapse Surgery

It’s a blessing in disguise for women who undergo the prolapse surgery, as they were very much relieved to get rid off urinary stress incontinence as well//. Prolapse surgery is conducted to correct a condition in which the vagina and nearby organs lose support and fall out of position. By a...

Women With Urinary Incontinence More Likely To Develop Depression

Women who suffer from urinary incontinence are more likely to be depressed, says a study//.Urinary incontinence is the inability to hold your urine until you get to a restroom. The condition is twice as common in women as in men, is often temporary, and can happen for various medical reasons. ...

Urinary Stress Incontinence Not Related To Childbirth

Surprisingly, women who have had vaginal deliveries prior to their menopause share the same risk of developing urinary incontinence, as do their sisters who have never given birth // . In other words, the risk for mothers is not higher compared to their counterparts. Over 10 million people worl...

Using Stem Cells To Treat Incontinence In Women

Stress incontinence affects nearly 15 million people worldwide. Problems with a patient's urethra causes urine leakage from exercising, coughing, sneezing, laughing, or lifting heavy objects. Austrian researchers say // they are successfully treating incontinent women with their own stem cells, whi...

Urinary incontinence linked to bedwetting as a child

Turkish researchers have established the association between adult urinary incontinence with bedwetting// as a child. After studying more than 1000 Turkish women, the research says that the reason between bedwetting as a child may be the same for exhibiting lack of control in controlling urine...

Urinary Incontinence May Be Hereditary

Researchers say women whose mothers suffer from urinary incontinence were about 1.3-times more likely to suffer from it and when // mothers reported severe symptoms, daughters were nearly two-times more likely to report urinary incontinence. If an older sister suffered from the condition, younger s...

Bladder Pacemaker For Incontinence

Biomedical engineering researchers from Duke University have come out with a device which is likely// to be of significance in patients who suffer from bladder control issues. They have named this as ‘smart bladder pacemaker’ that breaks into the urinary circuit in spinal cord which is respons...

New Procedure Helps Stop Urinary Incontinence

Millions of women, especially moms, suffer from stress urinary incontinence (SUI), a condition where sneezing, coughing or even laughing can lead to urine leakage.// “We try to treat patients with conservative therapies, such as learning better bladder habits, doing Kegel exercises, and addre...

The Link Between Hormone Therapy And Urinary Incontinence

Treatment for urinary incontinence found to increase the incidence of incontinence in postmenopausal women // say researchers based on recent findings . Estrogen plus progestin or estrogen alone has long been used to treat postmenopausal women. Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), which consists o...