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Researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found that a program of pelvic floor muscle exercises, combined with pelvic health education, can be an effective way to manage urinary incontinence in elderly women.The study, involving 65 women between the ages of 67 and 95, is being presented this week at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society in San Diego.Urinary incontinence, or loss of bladder control, is a frustrating, and often embarrassing, problem for more than...

New Jersey police said they used surveillance cameras to identify and arrest a suspect who has allegedly been urinating in elevators of two medical buildings. Investigators said Antonio Vega, 51, was charged with criminal mischief and given a $2,000 elevator repair bill after cameras set up in two Plainsboro buildings owned by Sharbell Development Corp. captured him urinating in elevator cars, the Trenton (N.J.) Times reported Tuesday. Police said Vega, who has allegedly been relieving...

NATICK, Mass., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced that it has entered into a co-marketing agreement with Bladder Health Network, a privately held company offering advanced testing solutions for urinary incontinence. Bladder Health Network offers an integrated diagnostic service that combines staffing, equipment, supplies and results analysis, helping to ensure that physicians and their patients have access to testing, interpretation...

LONDON, September 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Regurin(R) XL (trospium chloride), a once-daily, prolonged-release capsule to treat patients with overactive bladder (OAB) has been launched in the UK. Regurin(R) XL provides rapid, significant and consistent improvements in the symptoms of OAB1 and has a reduced potential for central nervous system (CNS) side effects(2-7). OAB, also known as irritable bladder, is a condition that results from sudden, involuntary contraction of the muscle in the...

Japanese research group led by Prof. Makoto Tominaga and Dr. Takaaki Sokabe (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS), and Prof. Masayuki Takeda, Dr. Isao Araki and Dr. Tsutomu Mochizuki (Yamanashi Univ.), found that bladder urothelial cells have a sensor for stretch stimulation. Their finding was reported in the Journal of Biological Chemistry published on Aug 7, 2009.Bladder is known to release ATP that activates micturition reflex pathway during urine storage. However, it has...

The mayor of Venice, Italy, says he lectured and called the police on a man he caught urinating into a canal.Mayor Massimo Cacciari said he came upon a Portuguese tourist urinating into the canal Monday night, ANSA reported Tuesday.I saw a gentleman peeing in a canal and took the liberty of telling him that he probably wouldn't do so in his living room, Cacciari said. I then called the city police to clear things up.Police fined the man $70.

A custodian in Clark County, Ind., is facing two class D felony counts for allegedly urinating on a court reporter's chair, court documents say. The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal said Friday Clark County Government Building custodian Stephen L. Thompson, 58, stands accused of emptying his bladder on a county circuit court chair, possibly on more than one occasion. Authorities allege in a Clark Superior Court probable cause affidavit that a circuit court employee complained on July 15 of...

People with mild to severe urinary tract symptoms are more likely to suffer metabolic syndrome, U.S. and British researchers said. The researchers at the New England Research Institutes in Watertown, Mass.; Northwestern University in Chicago; Cornell University, Weill Medical College in New York, Pfizer Inc., in New York; and Pfizer Ltd. in Sandwich, England; explored the association between urinary track symptoms and metabolic syndrome using data from the Boston Area Community Health...

A bladder disorder common to humans and cats may originate in the nervous system, U.S. researchers say. The study of chemicals found in blood samples, published in Analyst, suggests tryptophan -- an essential amino acid -- is processed in those with a painful bladder disorder called interstitial cystitis in a way that may affect how brain signals are transmitted. Senior author Tony Buffington of Ohio State University in Columbus and colleagues collected samples from cats with feline...

A marker in the blood of both cats and humans that was identified in a recent study might signal both species' susceptibility for a painful bladder disorder called interstitial cystitis, a condition that is often difficult to diagnose.Follow-up studies of the chemicals that appeared in blood samples suggest that the way tryptophan, an essential amino acid, is processed in cats and humans with interstitial cystitis ultimately could affect the way signals are transmitted in the brain. The...