(Reuters Health) - Nearly half of women over age 50 report bladder leakage and many say it's a major problem for them, according to a new U.S. survey. Of the more than 1,000 women ages 50 to 80 who ...

Most women suffer from a common medical condition — but it's long been kept on the down-low. In medical terms, the condition is called stress urinary incontinence (SUI), otherwise known as leaky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female veterans suffering from urinary incontinence received effective relief using a smartphone app called MyHealtheBladder, ...

Urinary incontinence or bladder leakage occurs when urine (pee) comes out of your bladder when you do not want it to (involuntarily). It is more common in women for the following reasons: ...

Urinary incontinence happens when pee leaks from your bladder in between bathroom trips. A number of treatments are available. Yours will depend on what’s causing the problem and how serious it is.

PORTAGE -- Three years ago surgery helped put an end to a leaky bladder that Anne "Angie" Miller had lived with for five decades. But it was a second surgery using the lining of a pig's intestine that ...

For many women, especially those who have had children, leakage of urine is a common complaint. So, too, is an urgency to use the bathroom. These conditions are among the most common pelvic floor ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs), sometimes called bladder infections, occur in women more often than men. Simple anatomy is behind this difference. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning about a medical device many say never should have been implanted in millions of women. In January, the FDA re-classified transvaginal mesh, a ...

As levels of binge drinking in the UK rise, doctors report three cases of bladder rupture in women who attended hospital with lower abdominal pain. In all these cases, diuresis (increased discharge of ...