The future of bioelectronic medicine is looking a little brighter thanks to an LED implant which uses light to control nerve cells in the bladder. A new device which uses light to control nerve cells, ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the world’s most common bacterial maladies. Approximately 12 percent of men and roughly half of all women experience a UTI in their lifetime. Up to 44 percent ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Nervous system disorders often affect people in many ways. One of the most common, but least talked about, impacts is on the urinary tract, in a condition called neurogenic ...

The bladder is a pouch-like muscular organ that holds urine from the kidneys until the fluid is eliminated from the body. When the bladder becomes full, nerves in the wall send a signal to the brain ...

If bladder nerves are damaged from surgery or from a disease, then a patient often loses sensation and is unaware that their bladder is full. Should you run to the bathroom now? Or can you hold it ...

The fight against Urinary Tract Infection pain, discomfort and a constant urge to urinate has taken a step forward with scientists identifying how the immune systems defence against bladder infection ...

Elise Kozal spent the better part of her college years with a burning bladder and urethra—a sensation that would send her to the bathroom constantly only to feel, frustratingly, as if she could never ...

Overactive bladder (OAB) is defined as urinary urgency, with or without urge incontinence, often with frequency and nocturia. Initial therapy of OAB often includes anticholinergics and behavioral ...

A woman's decades-long struggle with incontinence was finally solved when doctors discovered a rare condition.

The nerve damage that results in neuropathy (also known as peripheral neuropathy) not only causes symptoms such as pain, numbness, tingling, burning sensations, muscle weakness, incontinence, or ...

You hold it during long meetings, car trips, or when you’re too comfortable in bed to get up. What seems like a harmless inconvenience is actually training your nervous system in ways that can have ...