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NIDDK UI Symposium - Incontinence in LUTS in Women - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Role of Urodynamic Testing - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - In this session, Dr. Charles Nager provided a summary of the role of urodynamic (UD) testing and the areas for future research.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Devices for the Woman with Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Urinary Incontinence - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Ingrid E. Nygaard, Urogynecologist at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Utah College of Medicine in Salt Lake City commenced her lecture with a review of the history of intravaginal devices which include some type of a hard object.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Nocturia in Men and Women - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Mary Fitzgerald, Urogynecologist at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, presented the current evidence on nocturia.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Incontinence in Aging Men - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Tomas Griebling of the University of Kansas and the Landon Center on Aging in Kansas City gave an overview of the problem of UI in aging men.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Costs of Urinary Incontinence for Women - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Leslee Subak, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science, Epidemiology and Urology, University of California, San Francisco started her lecture by noting that “the more you leak, the more you spend.”
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Natural History: Complication of Untreated Incontinence - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - In her lecture, Jeanette S. Brown, Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Research Science; Urology; & Epidemiology, University of California, San Francisco made recommendations for research in the area of urologic conditions and their relationship to obesity and diabetes.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Quality of Life (QoL) Assessment - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Lior Lowenstein of the Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel defined what is meant by “quality of life” (QoL).
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Behavioral Training and Urge Suppression Techniques for Urinary Incontinence - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Kathy Burgio, behavioral psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham VA Medical Center, began her presentation by discussing the 2 general behavioral approaches to urge incontinence.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Outcome and Expectations in Post-Prostatectomy Incontinence Review of Literature - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Ajay K. Singla, Associate Professor, Department of Urology & Gynecology, Wayne State University started his presentation by noting the many treatment options for men with post-prostatectomy incontinence (PPI).
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Electrophysiological Studies on Repetitive Nerve Injuries - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Margot S. Damaser, Associate Professor at the Cleveland Clinic & Cleveland VA Medical presented her work with animal models to identify more precisely who is at risk for childbirth injury and how to treat them.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - The Genetics of the “At Risk” Population - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Bertha Chen, Associate Professor, Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Ob/Gyn, Stanford University School of Medicine presented the genetics of “at risk” populations for stress UI and pelvic organ prolapse (POP).
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Animal Model of OAB and CRH - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Rita Valentino, researcher in urology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia presented her fascinating research on brain regulation of urinary function as a potential contributor to patho-physiologic processes in incontinence and their role in treatment.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Pregnancy/Parturition - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Sampselle, the Carolyne K. Davis Collegiate Professor of Nursing at the University of Michigan presented her work on a series of sub-analyses that she felt could advance the recommendations of the NIH State-of-the-Science Conference on Prevention of FI & UI in Adults in the area of pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) and biofeedback in preventing and reversing UI in women for the first postpartum year.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - OAB/Urge Urinary Incontinence (UUI) - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Toby C. Chai, MD, FACS, John D. Young Professor, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine identified research needs in the area of OAB and UUI.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Continence Promotion: What the Whole Population Needs to Know: Vulnerable Populations, Older Adults, Women Having Babies, Men Post Prostatectomy (PPI) - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 February 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Diane Newman, Co-director of the Penn Center for Continence and Pelvic Health, Division of Urology and Instructor in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia presented an overview of continence promotion.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Prevention of UI - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 February 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Ananias Diokno, Urologist, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak, MI discussed the different types of prevention, primary, secondary and tertiary but concentrated on the need for primary prevention for such a growing medical condition as UI.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - New Research Directions for Urinary Incontinence Symposium Meeting Introduction - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 February 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - The NIDDK New Research Directions for Urinary Incontinence Symposium was chaired by Dr. Deborah Lightner (Associate Professor of Urology at Mayo Clinic) and NIDDK Program Director, Dr. Debuene Chang.
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NIDDK UI Symposium - Epidemiology/Natural History - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 February 2009
BETHESDA, MD, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Steinar Hunskaar, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Norway reviewed the current state of epidemiology of UI.
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