Rerouting nerves may aid bladder control
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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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Weight-loss surgery for severe obesity may carry the risk of damage to the network of nerves that runs throughout the body, researchers reported Thursday.
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Scientists are successfully treating stress incontinence with a transplant of the patient's own stem cells.
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ritish researchers have trained dogs to detect bladder cancer by sniffing human urine, opening up the possibility that dogs - or electronic noses modeled on their snouts - may one day be used to detect the disease.
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NEW YORK  - Treatment with a carbohydrate called HNK-1 may enhance the repair of damaged "motor" nerves, the type that send movement signals to muscles, German scientists report in the Annals of Neurology.
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The acute sense of smell that makes dogs useful for detecting illegal substances at airports might also be used to help doctors diagnosis bladder cancer, researchers reported this week in the British Medical Journal.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Radiotherapy can be a better option than surgery for people with bladder cancer, say experts.
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NEW YORK  - A range of health and lifestyle factors can predispose middle-aged women to bladder-control problems, though the causes tend to shift with age, according to a new study.
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Once-daily treatment with a drug called solifenacin improves all the major symptoms of overactive bladder, according to a UK study.
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Kit-form Lurch servants/monkey butlers for all Topflight Mancunian scientists believe they will soon pioneer an improved technique for splicing together human nerves. This could offer a range of benefits, not least the ability to assemble huge, powerful bodies out of miscellaneous human parts and implanted brains harvested from condemned criminal maniacs.â¦
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Physical therapy aimed at strengthening the pelvic floor muscles may help many women who suffer lingering incontinence months after giving birth, a study suggests.
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Scientists have helped women beat incontinence by injecting them with stem cells from their own tissue. Research on stem cells - the ultimate in self-medication - is still in its infancy.
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Research into using stem cells to repair damaged nerves just got a big boost, with scientists pinpointing a protein key to controlling binocular vision -- visual depth perception -- in mammals.
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Scientists have mapped a key network of switches in the brain which could aid research into neurological conditions.
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NEW YORK  - Once bladder cancer invades  surrounding muscles, surgical removal of the bladder -- radical  cystectomy -- is usually deemed necessary. However, if the  disease has not spread to other areas of the body, this can  sometimes be avoided, according to Italian researchers.
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Austrian researchers have successfully treated incontinence in women using the patients&#39; own muscle-derived stem cells. The women were suffering stress incontinence, a condition that affects almost