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Category Archives: Featured
The Many Myths of Bladder Health
Often times many older adults and caregivers hold myths and misconceptions about bladder control problems. These myths or beliefs surrounding bladder health could actually interfere with appropriate or the best treatment and management for bladder control problems. Over the next … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, bladder control, bladder control loss, bladder health, incontinence, myths
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Your Role in Managing Nocturia
By Nancy Muller, PhD, MBA Executive Director of the National Association For Continence As soon as women begin approaching menopause and men approach mid-life as well, it is not uncommon for both to begin experiencing urinary symptoms that can easily … Continue reading
Viable Long-Term Care: Sustain The Caregiver
By Nancy Muller, PhD, MBA Executive Director of the National Association For Continence The real battleground between the ambitions and goals of President Obama’s Administration and the State Governments, understandably so, appears to be Medicaid. After the recent Supreme … Continue reading
Grandmother’s Remedy: Baby Boomers Face Health Woes Without It
By Nancy Muller, PhD, MBA Executive Director of the National Association For Continence In early February, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an alarming study1 whose researchers concluded, without a doubt, America’s baby boomers – the … Continue reading
Detecting Prostate Cancer: Be in the Know
By Nancy Muller, PhD, MBA Executive Director of the National Association For Continence Less than a year ago, May 21, 2012 to be exact, the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued a resounding recommendation against the PSA … Continue reading
The Connection Between Obesity, Diabetes, and Bladder Control
By Nancy Muller, PhD Executive Director of the National Association For Continence At the national headquarters of our organization, we routinely have college interns interested in health care services or health care communications assist us with projects to witness … Continue reading
Patient Compliance with an Rx For Good Health
By Nancy Muller, PhD Executive Director of the National Association For Continence Over a year ago, I clipped a great article in The Wall Street Journal (“How Can You Help the Medicine Go Down?” , March 28, 2011) by … Continue reading
Stroke Becoming More Common in Adults
By Nancy Muller, PhD Executive Director of the National Association For Continence New research published in the October 10, 2012 online issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, reveals that strokes are becoming more … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, incontinence, NAFC, National Association For Continence, National Stroke Association, neurology, obesity, stroke
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Sensitive Skin While Plagued by a Leaky Bladder
By Nancy Muller, PhD Executive Director of the National Association For Continence Sensitive skin appears to be far more prevalent than many people suspect. A study published in 2011 in the International Journal of Dermatology, based on a telephone survey of … Continue reading
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Tagged bladder control, cotton, incontinence, leaky bladder, NAFC, National Association For Continence, organic, sensitive skin
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Self Lies
By Nancy Muller, PhD Executive Director of the National Association For Continence In 2012, former IBM executive Cathy Holloway Hill, a life improvement coach, authored “Lies, Love & Life” (www.chollowayhill.com) in which she wrote about the “self lies” that allow … Continue reading
