It's hard for some folks who suffer illness-related urinary incontinence to judge whether they'll be able to hold it until they get home, or if they should rush to a bathroom now. There might soon be ...

A research team at the University of Pittsburgh, led by Dr. Anne Robertson and PhD candidate Fatemeh Azari, discovered that the bladder does not simply inflate like a balloon when it fills. Instead, ...

Pain elicited by the ice-water test helps differentiate painful bladder syndrome (PBS) from overactive bladder disorders, according to a new study. The bladder-cooling reflex (uninhibited detrusor ...

Micturition or urination is the process of emptying urine from the storage organ, namely, the urinary bladder. The detrusor is the smooth or involuntary muscle of the bladder wall. The urethral ...