Health Expert Nancy Muller shares health management news and commentary at HealthCentral.com. 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/profiles/c/76594/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/76594/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/76594/index http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/147248/consequences Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:16:00 -0400 Nancy Muller Another finding in the recently released statistics from the 2009 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) regards poverty in this country. People living in the poorest communities in the U.S. have a 19% higher per capita rate of inpatient hospitalization than those in all other communities, or 1,420 per 10,000 in the local population versus 1,189 per 10,000. There is undoubtedly a direct connection... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/147248/consequences http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/147493/peyronie Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:58:00 -0500 Nancy Muller Peyronie's Disease (also known as Chronic Inflammation of the Tunica Albuginea (CITA), is a connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques, or scarring, in the soft tissue of the penis. It is estimated to affect up to 10% of all men, although many cases go unreported. Specifically, scar tissue forms in the thick sheath of tissue surrounding the dilatable spaces of the penis which fill with blood and become distended with... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/147493/peyronie http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/147247/conditions Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:38:00 -0500 Nancy Muller The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released statistics from its 2009 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), with trend information as far back as 1993. The NIS consists of discharge records for all inpatients treated in a sample of approximately 1,000 hospitals. These discharges are weighted to represent all inpatient stays in community hospitals across the nation, so this report... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/147247/conditions http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/144546/bedwetting Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:42:00 -0400 Nancy Muller In August of this year, the Dallas Morning News reported that a 10-year old Texas boy died in late July of dehydration after his parents deprived him of water to discipline him for wetting the bed. The boy's father, Michael Ray James, 42, and his wife, stepmother Tina Maria Alberson, also 42, were arrested afterwards and charged with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury. Depending on the outcome of trial, sentencing and punishment,... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/144546/bedwetting http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/143806/mesh-surgery Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:56:00 -0400 Nancy Muller Despite advances in all areas of medical technology, there continue to be few choices for women in American with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and/or pelvic organ prolapse (POP). The options available often fail to represent complete cures, or elimination of symptoms. Although for years, doctors considered the abdominal colposuspension (Burch) procedure to be the "gold standard" for treating SUI with surgery, a recent multi-center,... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/143806/mesh-surgery http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/142299/priorities Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:29:00 -0400 Nancy Muller In the midst of the federal debt ceiling crisis and arguments over where and how to reduce federal spending, discussions about the elderly - specifically Social Security and Medicare - keep coming on and off the table. In the end, they appear to be off, at least temporarily. But it's no secret that aging Baby Boomers, 78.2 million of whom commenced their coronations as Medicare beneficiaries in 2011, will fuel the ever-spiraling healthcare tab... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/142299/priorities http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/142287/dietary Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:22:00 -0400 Nancy Muller Just when you thought we had unearthed everything we needed to know for our diets to help us watch over our bladder and bowel health, researchers continue to unlike new clues, nutritional advice, and guidance. In recent months, the news has carried information to help reduce symptoms of urinary urgency and frequency, identify top choices in fruits to optimize for nutrients, fiber, and disease protection, and suggest drinking tea for stroke... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/142287/dietary http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/140901/americans Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:02:00 -0400 Nancy Muller   A five-member majority of the U. S. Supreme Court concluded in late June that "it makes little sense" to bar suits against generic drug-makers while allowing them against brand-name manufacturers1. The majority, however, sided with the supremacy of federal law in its potential conflict with state law, in that federal law bars manufacturers from labeling that varies from the FDA-approved labeling of the branded drugs they imitate. Thomas... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/140901/americans http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/140915/protecting Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:39:00 -0400 Nancy Muller Men wishing to be fertile or improve their fertility for success in conceiving with a female partner are being warned of an increasingly wider array of behaviors and practices to avoid. Much of this was brought to readers' attention in a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal and worthy of noting by all interested in the subject of male infertility1.  I have a few related comments to add to the coverage of the subject by Melinda Beck who... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/140915/protecting http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/140902/preventing Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:18:00 -0400 Nancy Muller Earlier in June, the Premier Safety Institute® of the Premier hospital alliance issued a bulletin calling for the removal of unnecessary urinary catheters to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). Is it all that easy? While The Joint Commission has added CAUTIs as a National Patient Safety Goal for 2012 and the Department of Health and Human Services has publicized its goal of reducing CAUTIs by 25 percent by 2013, it... http://www.healthcentral.com/incontinence/c/76594/140902/preventing