It's a problem nobody wants to talk about, suffering in silence and embarrassment. Of the 25 million Americans living with incontinence, 80% are women. But a pacemaker for the bladder may be the ...

In November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved r-SNM, the first rechargeable sacral nerve stimulator cleared for full-body MRI scans, and sales results from the initial launch were ...

Bladder control problems affect an estimated 43 million – or one in six – U.S. adults. Of those, nearly 16 million people have urge urinary incontinence, a common symptom of overactive bladder (OAB) ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My daughter, who is 50, recently went to a urologist for bladder retention issues. She had several tests performed. My daughter’s doctor told her that the diagnosis is “overactive ...

Sponsored FOY Tiny Device Provides Control and Confidence to Overactive Bladder Patients Raveen Syan, M.D., a urologist and Director of Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogynecology at the Desai Sethi ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – For millions of men and women living with overactive bladder, the condition can be frustrating and disruptive. Now a new implantable device is helping some patients gain back more ...

EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands, LAUSANNE, Switzerland, and BOSTON, MA USA, Feb. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ONWARD Medical N.V. (Euronext: ONWD), the medical technology company creating innovative ...

This article was reviewed by Julia Switzer, MD, FACOG. Urinary incontinence is the term for a loss of bladder control. In ...

Various nerves control bladder and bowel function, including the spinal cord, cauda equina, pudendal nerves, and the enteric nervous system, a nerve network in the walls of the digestive tract. These ...

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