Besides embarrassment, UI can decrease quality of life. They may avoid exercise, social activities and intimacy, for example.

AMBER Currah, 28, lives in Morecambe, Lancashire, with her six-year-old son. Today, she opens up on her battle with ketamine ...

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

"I was at the eye doctor. He was examining my eye, and he said, 'OK, now open wide.' I opened my mouth as wide as it would go ...

The NHS has issued some much-needed advice to anyone suffering from back pain. And with Christmas just around the corner, people need to pay attention.

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) — A new, low-maintenance implant device is now available to residents facing incontinence issues, adding freedom back to the lives of patients. A Lowcountry doctor has ...

Incontinence anxiety – also known as bowel and/or bladder control anxiety (BBCA) – describes an overwhelming fear of your bladder or bowel(or both) leaking in a public setting. People with ...

I started future-proofing in my mid-40s. I knew menopause was coming, and I needed some way to have the upper hand—to pretend I had control over the inevitable outcome of aging in a female body. It ...

TAR-200, a small drug-releasing implant, wiped out tumors in most patients with high-risk bladder cancer. Its slow, consistent release of chemotherapy proved far more effective than traditional ...

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 ...