Health Report A New Treatment Of The Overactive Bladder by Dr. W. Gifford Jones Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Have you ever heard of "Toilet Mapping"? The best description of this comes from a patient of mine who asked, "Do you know how to get to know a city well?" I replied, "I guess when you’ve lived there a number of years". "No" she responded, "It’s when you know where all the bathrooms are located.". This patient like millions of others suffered from overactive bladder (OAB). And she knew where every washroom was located in downtown Toronto. Now, a novel new skin patch has helped her with this common problem. OAB has been called the "closet disorder". The reason is it’s socially acceptable to discuss cholesterol at a dinner party. But who wants to admit that they often wet themselves or come close to doing so? Yet an estimated 65 percent of

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