A 12-year study examines long-term urinary incontinence after OASIS and vaginal birth. Learn how symptoms and quality of life change over time. Read more.

It’s true! In fact, you have more than fifty sphincters in your entire body, and most of them have nothing to do with controlling your bowel movements. Case in point: the sphincter that helps control ...

Burps happen when air from your stomach travels back up your food tube – called an esophagus – to your mouth. Air gets into ...

Treatment options for patients with severe fecal incontinence remain limited. A feasibility study of magnetic anal sphincter augmentation has demonstrated promising outcomes for this technique.

Anal sphincter defects are a common cause of faecal incontinence, with obstetric injuries in female patients accounting for the majority. [15] The results from previous studies [4,5] show that early ...

Another milestone for custom-crafted transplants: the world’s first lab-built sphincters. The breakthrough offers hope to countless people who have become incontinent through damage to their own ...