Tuesday 20 February 2018

Incontinence affects more than 200 million people worldwide, so why isn't more being done to find a cure?

Incontinence affects more than 200 million people worldwide, so why isn't more being done to find a cure? For a chronic health condition that causes shame and misery for countless people and costs billions, urinary incontinence keeps a low profile.

Media reports about chronic health conditions appear with alarming regularity, but it is rare to read about the debilitating impact of the involuntary leakage of urine. Nevertheless, urinary incontinence is a condition which, next to Alzheimer’s or strokes, is reported as most negatively affecting “health-related quality of life”. The Independent

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