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"It's really, really common in women, even teenagers, to leak once in a blue moon," says Nygaard, perhaps when they cough during an illness, bounce on a trampoline or laugh extremely hard. But the JAMA study reveals that moderate to severe incontinence is also a widespread condition. More than...
Increasingly, however, advertisements for urinary incontinence drugs have made women aware of the prevalence of the condition and its treatments. Not so for fecal incontinence, says Nygaard, which she calls a "profoundly embarrassing" condition for most patients. It can be attributed to muscle damage during childbirth, but a more common...
Two factors that increased the risk of incontinence, the study found, were obesity and childbirth. Although the odds of suffering a pelvic-floor disorder were lower for thin women who had not been pregnant, there is no way to avoid the risk altogether, Nygaard says. But there are few simple...
The most important thing a woman can do, given the study's conclusion that a pelvic-floor disorder may be in her future, is to get better acquainted with the condition and its cures. Surgery is not the only treatment, Nygaard says. Rather, there is a wide range of other...
China's food safety officials have once again come under intense scrutiny this week as the number of infants sickened by a batch of tainted milk powder expands daily. On September 17, Chinese Health Ministry authorities announced that over 6200 babies had fallen ill, many developing kidney stones, from drinking...