Various nerves control bladder and bowel function, including the spinal cord, cauda equina, pudendal nerves, and the enteric nervous system, a nerve network in the walls of the digestive tract. These ...

Pelvalon announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company's de novo request to market the Eclipse System, the first vaginal insert designed to provide bowel ...

Broward Health Medical Center is now offering the InterStim X system from Medtronic, a cutting-edge treatment for patients with bladder and bowel control conditions such as urinary and fecal ...

Bowel retraining is a program that people can follow to help regain control over the bowels or to help relieve chronic constipation. It involves training the body to have bowel movements each day at ...

One form this dysfunction can take is bowel incontinence, or the inability to control bowel movements. People who experience this symptom often fear having an accident at a particularly inopportune ...