Incontinence

Jana Pittman is a world champion, doctor and mother - and suffers incontinence. She's one of the five million Australians that have continence issues. 

During the height of the pandemic, Lisa was working as a nurse in the COVID outbreak squad. She had to leave the unit due to incontinence. Lisa is one of 5 million Australians suffering incontinence. 

Incontinence is a personal issue and can feel humiliating and degrading to talk about, but that's why we need to talk about it. 

In what is believed to be an Australian first, adult diaper waste from aged care facilities is being converted to biochar fertiliser in Eastern Victoria.

It affects one in four Australians, yet incontinence awareness is still worryingly low. Elicia and Alan have firsthand experience and they want others to know help is out there.

"Calamitous", "shocking", "disastrous" and "preventable" are some of the words women have used to describe their experience of living with pelvic mesh implants in a report to South Australia's Parliament.

When Dennis Box thinks of the men living in his small farming community, he loses count of those who have had prostate cancer. 

If you've ever googled anything related to incontinence or prolapse, ads for pelvic floor exercise devices have probably been fed into your social media feed. Here's what you need to know before buying one.

All women should be able to take their time going to the toilet, never leak, never strain with their bowels, or experience painful sex or periods.

This specialist nurse teaches thousands of prostate cancer survivors how to revitalise their sex life after diagnosis, but she is the only one of her kind in an area spanning 48,000 square kilometres.

Faecal incontinence is a debilitating condition that's more common than you might think — but the people who have it are often too embarrassed to seek treatment. Here’s what it is and how it can be managed.

Millions of Australian women experience some degree of pelvic organ prolapse, but many are too embarrassed to talk about it.

One woman told senators that her doctor had shown 'an unusual eagerness' to perform mesh surgery, while another said her doctor popped up 'like a Jack in the Box' at the prospect, write Sophie Scott and Alison Branley.

Australian innovations that will allow people to monitor their blood sugar levels through a pair of fashionable earrings and control incontinence using a pulsating anklet have caught the attention of international venture capitalists.

An embarrassing experience prompts a Japanese inventor to develop a device that monitors a person's bowel movements and sends them a message to tell them when it's time to go to the toilet.

Hundreds of women have joined a class action against medical giant Johnson and Johnson over a range of products designed to support weak pelvic floor muscles.

There are concerns a rationing of incontinence aids is forcing veterans in aged-care facilities to sit in their own filth.

The Townsville Hospital in north Queensland is leading the way in treating women with urinary stress incontinence.

Scientists say urinary incontinence in women can be corrected by transplanting the patient's own muscle-derived stem cells into the urethra to strengthen it.

A north Queensland medical expert has pioneered a procedure to cure incontinence.