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Millions of women struggle with the discomfort and stress of urinary incontinence, and many turn to medications for help.

Now, new research suggests that yoga and other exercise regimens might work just as well to control these bladder issues.

Researchers at Stanford University report that 12 weeks of yoga pr...

An experimental drug appears to help women deal with stress incontinence, clinical trial data show.

The drug, for now dubbed TAS-303, reduced the frequency of leaks related to stress incontinence by about 58%, compared with 47% reduction in a placebo group, trial results show.

Further, about 65% of patients taking TAS-303 had their stress incontinence episodes drop by at least half,...

Roughly a month after having her second child, Nicole Gerardi-Lukens suddenly felt pressure in her pelvis that was so intense it sent her to the hospital.

When doctors told her bladder had prolapsed -- meaning that it had slipped from its normal position and was bulging into the vaginal wall -- she anticipated surgery and a long, difficult recovery with a newborn and 4-year-old at home.

Urinary incontinence is a common aftereffect of delivering a baby, but it can have a devastating effect on new moms, a new study warns.

These bladder leaks are significantly associated with anxiety and depression in new mothers, researchers discovered....

If you're female and you lose bladder control upon exertion -- sneezing, coughing, laughing, lifting something heavy -- you may have stress urinary incontinence.

As many women know, the condition is no joke and it may keep you from doing the things you love.

There are solutions, however, some of them surgical. Here, experts at the Mayo Clinic and NYU Langone Health describe the vari...

Men and women can experience a variety of issues related to problems in what's called the pelvic floor, the network of muscles and ligaments around the pelvis.

Fortunately, strengthening therapy can get these problems under control.

A urologist from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston explains how this works.

"Like physical therapy is helpful for a knee or shoulder injury...

A lot of women experience stress urinary incontinence, those bladder leaks that can happen when a woman is coughing, sneezing, laughing or exercising.

It's the most common type of urinary incontinence in women, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Some first-line options are changing behaviors and doing pelvic floor exercises.

Pelvic floor exercises strengthen ...

If you struggle with urinary incontinence and worry that diet drinks may make matters worse, new research suggests they may not have a significant effect.

"This study is important in that it may guide clinicians counseling women with urinary incontinence to focus more on behavioral modifications, such as total volume intake, rather than on the type of beverage consumed," said