A common myth about urinary incontinence (the loss of bladder control or urinary leakage) in women is that surgery is your only option. "Some patients desire surgery as the primary therapy because ...

Weight-loss surgery may help reduce urinary incontinence in extremely obese people, a study suggests. Researchers followed nearly 2,500 obese men and women who had so-called bariatric surgery, which ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m 43 and have had trouble with urinary incontinence since having my fourth child at 41. It seemed manageable until about 6 months ago, when I started to notice it happening more ...

—Prospective studies have reported decreased incidence and severity of urinary incontinence disorders and pelvic floor symptoms following bariatric surgery, though further studies are warranted.

A new systematic review published today of surgery for stress urinary incontinence makes an important contribution to an ongoing debate and will help women to make more informed choices about ...

(HealthDay News) — Bariatric surgery may also help ease urinary incontinence in the long term, a new study suggests. Results of the study were published online in JAMA Internal Medicine. Two thousand ...

Concurrent surgeries for stress urinary incontinence and endometrial cancer fail to improve quality of life. Cancer-related quality of life scores improved with concomitant surgery and cancer surgery ...

October 25, 2007 — Regardless of surgical technique, women who have had a hysterectomy are at a much greater risk for needing stress-urinary-incontinence surgery, according to the results of a ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Urinary incontinence in severely obese women improved dramatically for up to 3 years after bariatric surgery, the largest study to date has found. "Improvement in urinary incontinence ...

If you're female and you lose bladder control upon exertion -- sneezing, coughing, laughing, lifting something heavy -- you may have stress urinary incontinence. As many women know, the condition is ...

Use of vaginal mesh implants has been paused here since 2018 but the HSE can reimburse women for surgery in other countries ...

Weight-loss surgery can have many health benefits, and now a new study suggests that long-term relief from urinary incontinence is one of them. Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common problem, and ...