Urinary Incontinence & OAB News

• ACOG 2021 Primary Ovarian Insufficiency Requires Long-term Management Women with primary ovarian insufficiency may experience some intermittent ovarian function, experts report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2021
• Freezing Breast Cancer to Death Avoids Surgery New results from a clinical trial of cryoablation for low-risk, early-stage breast cancer offer hope that the modality might one day be a treatment option in the US. But what's taking so long?
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2021
• ACP 2021 Insomnia? Referral, Drugs Not Usually Needed The chronic condition is underrecognized and often misunderstood. But behavior modification works for most patients and doesn't drain primary care resources, an expert says.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2021
• Self-management Techniques Help Relieve Urinary Tract Symptoms The techniques practiced by patients as part of the trials included adjusting the timing for drinking fluids, reducing caffeine/alcohol, adjusting urinating habits, and performing pelvic floor exercises.
  Medscape Medical News, April 13, 2021
• FDA Approves Myrbetriq to Treat Pediatric NDO The US Food and Drug Administration said Mirabegron (Myrbetriq/Myrbetriq Granules) can also be used to treat pediatric neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO).
  FDA Approvals, March 29, 2021
• 'Landmark' Schizophrenia Drug in the Wings? A novel treatment that combines a muscarinic receptor agonist with an anticholinergic agent is associated with greater reduction in psychosis vs placebo, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, March 02, 2021
• Stem Cell Fraud Case Sparks Concern Over Unmatched Docs' Role A recently elected Missouri state representative and assistant physician faces federal fraud charges after patients were duped into thinking they were receiving stem cell treatments.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• Novel Gene Therapy Wows for BCG-Unresponsive Bladder Cancer A novel gene therapy for BCG-unresponsive NMIBC, nadofaragene firadenovec, is being suggested as a "new gold standard" for these patients.
  Medscape Medical News, December 08, 2020
• POP Surgeries Not Tied to Decreased Sexual Functioning The researchers determined that there is "moderate to high quality data" supporting the influence of POP on sexual activity and function.
  Medscape Medical News, October 28, 2020
• Two-Stage Surgery to Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk Piques Interest Women at high risk of developing ovarian cancer want to have options when it comes to taking steps such as surgery for reducing their risk, a survey finds.
  Medscape Medical News, October 16, 2020
• Hold Off Radiotherapy After Prostate Cancer Surgery Instead of adjuvant radiotherapy after prostatectomy, observation and early salvage radiotherapy offer equal outcomes with fewer side effects.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2020
• Fractional CO2 Laser Improves Vaginal Health After Menopause Fractional CO2 laser therapy is more effective than intravaginal promestriene or vaginal lubricant for improving vaginal health in women with genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM), researchers from Brazil report.
  Reuters Health Information, July 26, 2020
• Harms From Prostate Cancer Tx Persist at 5 Years Changes in urinary, bowel, and sexual function following treatment of prostate cancer diminish over time, but some persist 5 years later.
  Medscape Medical News, January 22, 2020
• Alert Arousal Syndrome No Cause for Shame, Doctors Say PGAD, in which a person feels repeatedly sexually aroused without provocation, has been considered an extremely rare and embarrassing condition, one that has been the punchline of jokes even by doctors.
  WebMD Health News, January 10, 2020
• New Analysis Expands on Link Between Pharma Payments, Prescribing Pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors billions of dollars for consulting, promotional talks, meals and more. A new finds that doctors who received payments prescribed more of those drugs.
  ProPublica, December 30, 2019
• Combo Therapy No Better Than Surgery Alone for Incontinence Adding combination therapy to midurethral sling surgery in women with mixed urinary incontinence was not statistically significantly better compared with surgery alone, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, September 17, 2019
• CMSC 2019 Depression Called a 'Core Symptom' of MS MRI studies show multiple sclerosis brain changes linked to depression, but randomized controlled trials of antidepressants in this population are lacking.
  Medscape Medical News, June 14, 2019
• Excess Vitamin D Linked to Kidney Damage A case study shows that excessive vitamin D intake can cause kidney damage in patients who are not vitamin D deficient; physicians should caution patients about taking over-the-counter supplements.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2019
• SGO 2019 Two Surgeries at Once: Endometrial Cancer & Stress Incontinence Women who require surgery for endometrial cancer enjoy a better quality of life if concomitant stress urinary incontinence is surgically repaired at the same time.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2019
• EAU 2019 Night-shift Workers Bothered by Nocturia, Urgency Healthcare workers with overnight shifts have more lower urinary tract symptoms and worse quality-of-life scores than day-shift workers, according to a new survey.
  Medscape Medical News, March 19, 2019