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 soft, stretchable sensor is the elongated section near the tip of the tweezers. The green box is the implantable "base station," which holds electrical components to power the device and ...
Should you run to the bathroom now? Or can you hold it until you get home? A new implant and associated smartphone app may someday remove the guess work from the equation. Northwestern University ...
The deal would set up Boston Scientific to compete directly with Medtronic in the market for neuromodulation devices that ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – For millions of men and women living with overactive bladder, the condition can be frustrating and disruptive. Now a new implantable device is helping some patients gain back more ...
Boston Scientific is buying up privately owned medtech Valencia Technologies for its implantable device aimed at helping ...
Bladder control problems affect an estimated 43 million – or one in six – U.S. adults. Of those, nearly 16 million people have urge urinary incontinence, a common symptom of overactive bladder (OAB) ...
A 41-year-old nurse from Severance shopping for a solution to her overactive bladder symptoms found a way to regain full control thanks to an innovative procedure. Sarah Avrech said goodbye to a life ...
UChicago Medicine has become the first medical center in Illinois to implant the Revi neuromodulation device, an exciting new treatment option that could offer relief for patients with urinary urgency ...
"I would run. I would exercise. I would put my hands in warm water. It would cause me to dribble," said Michele Baran about her bladder leakage problem. The 63-year-old already had tried bladder sling ...