It could be fall-out from the American Urological
Association meeting during the last week of May,
2002. There were a number of panels and papers on
urinary incontinence presented there, and the drug
companies are really pushing the new concept of
"Over-Active Bladder" (OAB), which they are promoting
now as a "medical" problem requiring a "medical"
solution.
Interestingly, I checked the stats on my own
website, devoted to biofeedback and behavioral
methods of treating urinary incontinence, and
there has been NO increase; in fact, a slight
decrease (5%), in visits since AUA. I don't believe
there were any papers on biofeedback at this
year's AUA meeting.
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John Perry, PhD
Webmaster, www.InContiNet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Evidence based health (EBH) is the integration of individual
knowledge [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jon
Brassey
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 2:16 AM
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Subject: Medical Trends
I run the TRIP Database (www.tripdatabase.com) and have recently had a new
piece of software written that monitors what papers people go and view.
I've had some interesting results and am trying to make sense of them!
Basically, over the last few days the top four articles viewed from the TDB
have been on Urinary Incontinence. Two weeks ago the most popular papers
tended to be related to Fall Prevention in the Elderly!
Has anyone got any ideas how I can figure put these apparent trends?
All the best
jon
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