PEOPLE who suffer from the embarrassing problem of urinary incontinence could
one day be cured using stem cells taken from their muscles. The cells would be
injected into their bladders to strengthen the muscles there and restore
control.
The treatment has already been successfully tested on rats, researchers told
a meeting of the American Urological Association this week. “It works very well.
It could make a dramatic impact,” says Michael Chancellor, a urologist at the
University of Pittsburgh. “We hope it will be in clinical trials within a
year.
In the US alone, 13 million people suffer from urinary incontinence,…
