Drug May Avert Surgery for Severe Incontinence
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NEW YORK  - Women awaiting surgery to  relieve severe stress urinary incontinence may gain significant  relief with the drug, leading some to reconsider surgery, a  study indicates.
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Regular use of non-steroidal  anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), especially aspirin, may  decrease the risk of bladder cancer, particularly more  advanced, high-grade tumors containing alterations in the tumor  suppressor protein TP53, results of a study suggest.
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Men have Viagra and other pills to fight sexual impotence. Now women might soon have something roughly equivalent. Procter &amp; Gamble will try today to persuade a federal advisory panel to
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A drug has been found to slow a common cause of vision loss - and even improve sight in some patients.
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Women who have undergone hysterectomy, or removal of the womb, are at higher risk of urinary incontinence that needs to be corrected by surgery later on, a 30-year Swedish study has found.
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Scientists are successfully treating stress incontinence with a transplant of the patient's own stem cells.
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The drug toremifene, used to treat breast cancer in women, has been found to also reduce the incidence of prostate cancer in men at risk for the disease.
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Inserting an artificial  sphincter around the outlet of the bladder can improve the  urine leakage that many elderly men experience following  removal of the prostate gland for cancer and other diseases,  according to a report in the journal Urology. The results  suggest that age in itself is not a barrier to this treatment.
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It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills &#151; morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves.
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A drug made from the ocean's sea squirt may help those with a rare form of cancer, research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Among women treated for heavy  menstrual bleeding, those who undergo a vaginal hysterectomy do  not appear to have an increased risk of urinary incontinence,  according to French researchers.
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NEW YORK  - For women who need surgery for abnormal vaginal bleeding, both hysterectomy and a less-extensive alternative seem to be similarly effective, new research suggests.
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(WASHINGTON) - The maker of a new drug to treat women&#39;s sexual dysfunction says the product is safe and should be approved without delay.
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Chronic inflammation of the prostate can lead to constant pain that is hard to treat, but a new approach seems to hold out promise.
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Needing a wheelchair isn't always the biggest complaint of people left paralyzed by spinal cord injury &#151; it's also the loss of bladder control. On Monday, Michigan doctors began a unique experiment to see if rerouting patients' nerves just might fix that problem.
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NEW YORK  - Regular use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), especially aspirin, may decrease the risk of bladder cancer, particularly more advanced, high-grade tumors containing alterations in the tumor suppressor protein TP53, results of a study suggest.
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Urinary incontinence in women can be  corrected by transplanting the patient's own muscle-derived  stem cells into the urethra to strengthen it, scientists said  on Monday.