The anxiety that haunts many women with incontinence can only get worse when it comes to traveling. Stress urinary incontinence occurs when physical pressure on the bladder—like that caused by ...

Health advice varies by age and gender. Young girls learn about the changes that happen during puberty, for instance, and women in their late teens are taught breast self-exams.  If ...

It’s one thing to have a doctor tell you to use a pessary, and quite another to get used to the routine of inserting and removing one. It might leave ...

Women suffering with incontinence are often embarrassed to go out, limit their activities, and sometimes even avoid seeing a doctor. Besides physical side effects, there are mental health impacts of ...

It’s not surprising that incontinence can make it difficult to get a proper night’s rest. Urinary incontinence is defined as the unintentional loss of urine. Many women are used to ...

Many of us know the feeling: laugh at a joke, sneeze or cough and suffer an embarrassing leak of urine. This condition, known as stress urinary incontinence, affects twice as ...

Incontinence is no laughing matter, and you might not like the thought of facing surgery to fix it. If you’re suffering from stress urinary incontinence, or SUI, you have options ...

It’s easy to take your bladder for granted, until something goes wrong. You likely don’t even realize it’s there, other than when it lets you know it’s time to pee. ...

Leaking urine is no laughing matter, although if you suffer from stress urinary incontinence, you often leak urine when you laugh. Stress urinary incontinence—or SUI as it’s commonly called—is a ...