It’s true! In fact, you have more than fifty sphincters in your entire body, and most of them have nothing to do with controlling your bowel movements. Case in point: the sphincter that helps control ...

Uromems, the company developing an automated artificial urinary sphincter implant for both men and women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI), hit a significant milestone. The Grenoble, France-based ...

IN recent years, surgeons who operate upon patients for biliary-tract disease have become increasingly aware of the significant role of obstruction of the common duct at the sphincter of Oddi. This ...

Another milestone for custom-crafted transplants: the world’s first lab-built sphincters. The breakthrough offers hope to countless people who have become incontinent through damage to their own ...

LAS VEGAS -- After decades of use, the artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) finally has high-level evidence of its safety and efficacy for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in men. What's more, patients ...