Incontinence Expert Nancy Muller shares Incontinence management news and commentary at IncontinenceNetwork.com. The HealthCentral Network, Inc. (www.HealthCentral.com) is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594 http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594 http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/73994/home-elderly Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:09:00 -0400 Nancy Muller At NAFC, we remain perennially concerned about home safety for the elderly, particularly with regards to the risk factors for falling and their consequences.  Always on the lookout for advice to pass along, I recently came across a home safety "checklist" that I'd like to share from Pamalyn Kearney , a licensed occupational therapist (OT) and assistant professor and vice chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy at University of the... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/73994/home-elderly http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/73993/listening Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:05:00 -0400 Nancy Muller I distinctly recall the advice, twenty-five years ago, of my own OBGYN when searching for a pediatrician as a first-time mother:  find someone who listens to your child's symptoms and who can diagnose a problem quickly and accurately from your input. There's nowhere this recommendation is more relevant than in the case of women's health and ovarian cancer.  Clearly, one of the most valuable functions a trained health professional... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/73993/listening http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/71856/menopause Thu, 28 May 2009 17:25:00 -0400 Nancy Muller   Over and over, we increasingly witness documentation of the lifelong benefits of physical exercise.  Experts have even discovered and documented evidence that exercise is helpful in controlling the symptoms of arthritis, a rheumatic disease affecting the body's joints and connective tissues.  We once thought exercise was something to be avoided by those with arthritic limbs. Now we know that in the case of rheumatic disease... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/71856/menopause http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/71855/performance Thu, 28 May 2009 17:22:00 -0400 Nancy Muller   The May 1, 2009 edition of the AARP Bulletin spotlighted a waiver that increasing numbers of doctors are asking their patients to sign, whereby they promise not to "publish or air" any unfavorable information about their doctor's care, manner or office staff.  It is specifically targeted at combating the growing prevalence of online ratings of doctors such as HealthGrades.com, Angieslist.com, RateMDs.com, and most recently... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/71855/performance http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/71854/psa-screening Thu, 28 May 2009 17:18:00 -0400 Nancy Muller PSA Screening of Informed Patients   Recently I blogged concern over population-wide research revealing how women, feeling current, economic constraints from their household's loss of income and insurance coverage, are increasingly foregoing screening for cancers and cardiovascular disease.  The behavior of women is running counter to medical advice and opinion.    A very different situation looms for men.&nbsp... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/71854/psa-screening http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/71852/combating Thu, 28 May 2009 17:13:00 -0400 Nancy Muller While at NAFC, we have long echoed the mantra that loss of bladder or bowel control is not an automatic consequence of aging, there are some certainties we can anticipate as we age.  These include the formation of cataracts, the wearing out of joints, inflammation, and arthritis, the cumulative effects of exposure to the sun such as wrinkling and even skin cancer, graying of hair, the loss of muscle and tone, and for most of us a widening... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/71852/combating http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/67602/fearlessly Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:39:00 -0400 Nancy Muller Other than skin cancers, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men.   The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly 200,000 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in the U.S. during 2008. Because of advancements in detection, diagnostics, and treatment, fewer than three in every hundred men diagnosed with the cancer will die of it, although the chances of being diagnosed are one in six over a man's lifetime. ... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/67602/fearlessly http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/67432/treatment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:52:00 -0400 Nancy Muller Although presented in 2002 at international meetings on continence care by clinical thought-leaders in the UK, a survey of 100 female patients in an urogynecologic clinic of a major, referral medical center went largely unnoticed in the U.S. Perhaps this is because of the heavy orientation of the American healthcare delivery system to the use of prescription drugs for managing symptoms and the disproportionate numbers of medical and surgical... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/67432/treatment http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/59110/hospital Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:27:00 -0400 Nancy Muller In a very underpublicized announcement, the American Hospital Association (AHA) released figures in November 2008 illustrating that U.S. community hospitals enjoyed record profits in 2007, posting $43 billion more in revenue than expenses and creating the largest single-year jump in profit margins in at least 15 years. Carried as an online news bulletin by the magazine Modern Healthcare, the facts were buried quickly by the AHA, as they can't... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/59110/hospital http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/59109/hospitals Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:26:00 -0400 Nancy Muller The November/December 2008 issue of the highly respected journal Health Affairs published a study comparing how nine 250-plus-bed general hospitals in the Boston area fared among five leading hospital quality reporting services. Led by Michael B. Rothberg, MD, MPH, at Tufts University School of Medicine, the researchers found wide variation for many of the hospitals. For example, two hospitals that were top-ranked for coronary artery bypass... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/59109/hospitals