New names for old problems

The International Continence Society (ICS) has issued new guidelines for the words we use to describe some common bladder problems. The common experience of a sudden, urgent desire to pass water has often been ascribed to an unstable bladder or detrusor instability...but now, says the ICS, we should be talking about "idiopathic detrusor overactivity". "Urge incontinence", something we have heard a lot about, is to be replaced by the equally snappy"detrusor overactivity incontinence with urgency". Medical dictionary publishers will no doublt be smiling.