Below you will find news and press releases from industry, government, and academia regarding product developments and medical/scientific research news.
Friends Adult Diapers Flags Off Its First Ad Campaign
With the campaign, Friends Adults Diapers aims is to blow the lid off the issue and show how liberating life can be again for a senior who is homebound due to incontinence. Adult Incontinence is considered a taboo across in India, it is brushed away under the carpet and ignored like it doesn’t exist. The brand has launched the country’s first ever campaign for the category, bringing the spotlight on the subject, in a unique light-hearted manner that’s bound to resonate with people across the country. With the campaign, Friends Adults Diapers aims is to blow the lid off the issue and show how liberating life can be again for a senior who is homebound due to incontinence; how one product can bring about a life-altering change in the lives of our elders and how accepting the problem and its solution can leave the senior citizens with happiness and freedom in the last leg of their lives. Read more.
Source: ETBrandEquity.com, November 24, 2017
Tackling the Taboos – Alex Cole-Hamilton Leads Holyrood Debate on Incontinence
As we reported last month, Alex Cole-Hamilton brought a motion calling for a National Continence Strategy to the Scottish Parliament. It was debated yesterday. Here is Alex’s speech. He is pictured here with Elaine Miller, his constituent whose show Gusset Grippers highlighted the issue at this year’s Edinburgh Festival.
If we ask anyone in this chamber or beyond it what their top five fears of age or infirmity might be, we can be sure that the subject of this debate will sit right up there. However, I state from the outset that, if we, as legislators, assume that incontinence is a condition only of the old or infirm, we are mistaken and are part of the problem. I called for the debate because women and men of all ages suffer in silence. It is high time that they are made aware of, and given, treatment, support and—most important—hope. Read more.
Source:Liberal Democrat Voice, November 17, 2017
First New Urinary Catheter for 80 Years to Be Revealed
The inventors of a new catheter claim it could solve one of “the biggest problems” in community nursing and reduce discomfort, embarrassment and complications for millions of patients. They are nearing the final stages of developing their new Flume Catheter, which they hope will solve many of the common problems associated with current models, and are calling on nurses to help them with their ongoing research. Their design, which was also developed with input from community nurses, is less likely to block and also less of an infection risk than older models, according to the clinicians and engineers behind it. Read more.
Source: Nursing Times, November 15, 2017
Sacral Neuromodulation, Botulinum Show Equal Efficacy
In patients with refractory urgency urinary incontinence (UUI), sacral neuromodulation (InterStim) and onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) produce similar reductions in mean daily UUI episodes, according to 24-month follow-up data on patients treated in a randomized trial. Investigators in the ROSETTA (Refractory Overactive Bladder: Sacral NEuromodulation versus BoTulinum Toxin Assessment) trial in 2016 reported that botulinum toxin at 6 months of treatment resulted in a “small daily improvement in UUI episodes” that was statistically significant (JAMA 2016; 316:1366–74). Now, in long-term follow-up data on ROSETTA, NIH investigators reported at the International Continence Society annual meeting in Florence, Italy that the two treatments provide similar reductions in mean daily UUI episodes at 24 months. However, botulinum toxin treatment was more likely to provide complete resolution of episodes 6 months after treatment, and it was associated with higher patient satisfaction and treatment endorsement ratings over the 24 months, reported first author Christopher J. Chermansky, MD, assistant professor of urology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Read more.
Source: Urology Times, November 14, 2017
New Surgery for Prostate Cancer Can Cut the Chance of Incontinence
Up to a quarter of prostate cancer patients suffer temporary or permanent incontinence after surgery. Steve Gregory, 60, a retired IT director from Hampshire, underwent a procedure said to reduce this risk. ANGELA EPSTEIN reports.
THE PATIENT
As someone who has always been fit, I never thought that I’d develop prostate cancer. But for about a year before my diagnosis, I was waking up twice a night to go to the loo. In February 2016 I finally saw my GP, mainly because my close friend, Nick, had been diagnosed with the disease, so it was on my mind. Read more.
Source: DailyMail.com, November 13, 2017
Innovus Pharma Announces Agreement with ACON Laboratories, Inc.
Innovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Innovus Pharma” or the “Company”) (OTCQB Venture Market: INNV), an emerging commercial-stage pharmaceutical company that delivers safe, innovative and effective over-the-counter medicine and consumer care products to improve men’s and women’s health and respiratory diseases, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with ACON Laboratories, Inc. (“ACON Labs”). ACON Labs is a San Diego-based diagnostic product manufacturer who will supply Innovus Pharma with its U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) cleared Urinary Tract Infection (“UTI”) test strips. Innovus Pharma will offer the UTI test strips, which provide results in 2-minutes, to its customers who buy its UriVarx™ product. UriVarx™ is clinically tested in patients with overactive bladder (“OAB”) and urinary incontinence (“UI”). Innovus Pharma is expected to launch the UTI strips under its UriVarx™ brand in Q1 2018. Read more.
Source: Market Insider, November 9, 2017