I was repeatedly told my chronic bladder pain was just stress or anxiety, but after seven years, I got my diagnosis ...

At 16, I knew something was wrong. Little did I know my rare condition would take several specialists and seven years to diagnose.

An injection of placenta tissue could offer hope for people with a chronic form of cystitis. The treatment led to a three-fold reduction in the pain and urinary symptoms experienced by patients with ...

Interstitial cystitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (IC/CPPS) is a bladder condition in women that is characterized by chronic irritative bladder symptoms in the presence of sterile urine. The etiology ...

(HealthDay)—The symptoms of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) are widespread among men in the United States, according ...

Women with vulvodynia at much higher risk for other chronic pain conditions, according to a new study. Women with vulvodynia at much higher risk for other chronic pain conditions, according to a new ...

Label-free digital pathology using infrared (IR) imaging with subsequent proteomic analysis for bladder cancer (BC) has revealed the first protein biomarker (AHNAK2) for BC. AHNAK2 differentiates ...

One of the main challenges for treating urinary tract infections is their high recurrence, especially in women. The underlying mechanisms of this high recurrence rate are not well understood, but ...

Interstitial cystitis, also known as IC, also known as painful bladder syndrome, is a very poorly understood condition. It ...