The Sorry State of Postpartum Care in America
It used to be taboo for moms to talk about their postpartum struggles. Today, not so much. In fact, it’s quite the opposite: it seems like everyone lately is talking about the difficulty of the postpartum period. On Google, if you search for “celebrity postpartum stories,” almost every result yields an article about famous moms discussing things like postpartum depression, anxiety, psychosis, and even pelvic prolapse. In March 2023, Brittany Mahomes, wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, shared a warning with her 1.9 million followers, writing, “Just a daily reminder. Once you hav...
Source: TIME: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maytal Eyal and Bridget Freihart Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Pelvital Announces Advisory Board, Fueling its Mission to Transform the Standard of Care for Urinary Incontinence
Women's Health Medical Device Company Deepens Impact with Naming of Advisory Board EAGAN, Minn., April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Pelvital, the women's health MedTech company on a mission to transform the standard of care for urinary incontinence, is proud to announce the formation of... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - April 2, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PER WOM Source Type: news
Urinary Implant Helps Alert When Patients'Gotta Go '
TUESDAY, March 26, 2024 -- It’s hard for some folks who suffer illness-related urinary incontinence to judge whether they’ll be able to hold it until they get home, or if they should rush to a bathroom now.
There might soon be a new app... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 26, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
MRI/ultrasound combination effective for treating prostate cancer
A new, minimally invasive procedure that combines MRI and transurethral ultrasound is effective for treating prostate cancer, according to research presented March 20 at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting in Salt Lake City.
A team led by Steven Raman, MD, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that the treatment -- dubbed MRI-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation (TULSA) and performed by interventional radiologists -- proved a viable alternative to surgery or radiation, showing a recovered continence rate of 92% at five-year follow-up.
"This image-...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Interventional MRI Ultrasound Genitourinary Radiology Source Type: news
Dual incontinence and risk of fall: a retrospective cohort study - Kravitz E, Thompson JJ, Christiansen T, Arya L, Andy U, Kim EK.
The objective of our study was to ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Fecal Incontinence: One in 12 Adults May Be Affected Fecal Incontinence: One in 12 Adults May Be Affected
Approximately one in 12 adults worldwide has fecal incontinence, according to a recent global meta-analysis.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
The Urethra Is a Sex Organ; Why This Matters in Incontinence The Urethra Is a Sex Organ; Why This Matters in Incontinence
Whether the problem is due to aging or cancer treatment, men (and women) don ' t need to suffer silently in diapers.Medscape Urology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Urology Commentary Source Type: news
Reducing falls in older women with urinary incontinence - Reaves S, Arya LA, Newman DK, Wyman J, Klusaritz H, Walsh W, Brown RT, Andy UU.
Urinary incontinence is common in older women and doubles the risk of falls in this population. The association between urinary incontinence, especially urgency urinary incontinence, and falls is multifactorial and likely the result of a complex interactio... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Are skinny jeans killing your pelvic floor? Top expert debunks common incontinence myths... but warns there IS truth to the claims about tight trousers
Dr Jenny Kruger, a world-renowned expert on pelvic floors and leaky bladders, warns drinking too much caffeine and wearing very tight jeans could irritate your bladder. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
People in need of care at home: the relevance of incontinence and falls - Palm R.
The geriatric syndromes of incontinence and falls not only affect patients living in care homes, but increasingly also patients in their own homes. This particularly affects patients with cognitive impairments. A high nursing home admission age in an agein... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
How effective and safe are single-incision slings for women with urinary incontinence compared with other operations?
Friday, February 23, 2024 (Source: Cochrane News and Events)
Source: Cochrane News and Events - February 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Paolo Rosati Source Type: news
Pelvital Announces Landmark Study Demonstrating Efficacy of Flyte ® Device in Treating Stress Urinary Incontinence
Pelvital published a milestone paper in the peer-reviewed Therapeutic Advances in Urology showing the efficacy of its FDA-cleared novel device Flye to treat stress urinary incontinence and weakened pelvic floor muscles. EAGAN, Minn., Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Flyte® device... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 21, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: TRI WOM Source Type: news
Which Surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence Is Best for You?
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21, 2024 -- 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 no joke and it may... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 21, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Why Bathroom Access Is a Public Health Issue
It’s not unusual to fast before a medical test to avoid skewing the results. But Dr. Zoë Gottlieb’s patients often skip meals for a different reason.
Gottlieb, a gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City, specializes in treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an umbrella term for conditions involving chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, specifically Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. People with IBD have “unreliable bowel habits,” meaning they may need to use the bathroom frequently or ...
Source: TIME: Health - February 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
I'm proof incontinence can strike ANYONE: Fitness instructor, 45, reveals she'd have 'little accidents' whenever she sneezed - but found remedy in device that seemed 'too good to be true'
When Gemma Cooke, 45, from Bristol, first had a 'little accident' while exercising on a trampoline, she was shocked. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
