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Urinary Incontinence

New treatment could "revolutionize" management of severe incontinence

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 20th, 2003

Scientists have developed a potential treatment for severe incontinence that means the millions of sufferers worldwide could one day throw away their incontinence pads.

University of Melbourne, Australia, scientists who developed the technique have now licensed the intellectual property to Continence Control Systems International P/L (CCS), an Australian company created to commercialize the technology that will address a worldwide potential market of more than A$1 billion per year.

Urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine from the bladder. The research team from three University departments (Anatomy, Zoology, and Surgery) has found a way...

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