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...report found that about 24% of the nationally representative sample of 1,961 women studied had symptoms of at least one pelvic-floor disorder, conditions that occur when the pelvic muscles and tissues are weakened or injured, according to Dr. Ingrid Nygaard, a urogynecologist and pelvic reconstructive surgeon at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. The disorders reported in the JAMA study included incontinence and pelvic-organ prolapse, the result of pelvic muscles so weakened that they can't hold organs, such as the uterus, correctly in place. Of the women who reported any symptom...
...factors that increased the risk of incontinence, the study found, were obesity and childbirth. Although the odds of suffering a pelvic-floor disorder were lower for thin women who had not been pregnant, there is no way to avoid the risk altogether, Nygaard says. But there are few simple things women can do to lower risk, including changing two common habits. For one thing, Nygaard says, she sees too many of her patients lugging around one-liter bottles of water. This trend makes it more likely that women will drink too much water, leading to what doctors call urge incontinence...
...most important thing a woman can do, given the study's conclusion that a pelvic-floor disorder may be in her future, is to get better acquainted with the condition and its cures. Surgery is not the only treatment, Nygaard says. Rather, there is a wide range of other therapies, including drugs, lifestyle changes, biofeedback, pelvic muscle exercises and medical devices that relieve prolapse without surgery. Nygaard, a past president of the American Urogynecologic Society, suggests visiting the group's website for a guide to the disorder and helpful advice for women...
...spoke with Alwaleed in Riyadh on Tuesday, as the world reeled from the shock of the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy. In his offices on the 66th floor of the iconic Kingdom Tower, the prince (a nephew of King Abdullah) seems a world away from the tumult in New York City. But a giant TV screen in his office was tuned to CNBC, and he conceded that his personal worth may have taken a hit with the stocks slide, though he stressed that he was doing well with investments closer to home...
...Home to President Felipe Calderon, Michoacan state is used by cartels to harvest and traffic narcotics, including marijuana and opium. In recent years, the region has spawned a particularly brutal gang known as "La Familia," who once threw five severed human heads onto the dance floor of a disco. When Calderon took office in December 2006, the bespectacled lawyer began a national crackdown against organized crime, starting the campaign in Michoacan, where he sent soldiers into mountains to burn crops and seize safe houses. And the cartels have responded with a violent counteroffensive, killing more than 500 police, soldiers, judges...