New treatment proves there is nothing to stress about when it comes to incontinence

 A new laser treatment offers a cure for urinary incontinence, a condition actress Kate Winslet has helped to highlight by talking about her own experience. Áilín Quinlan reports

IT’S more than just an uncomfortable health condition — it’s an affliction which can affect your social life and curtail your fitness regime.

Traditionally women didn’t discuss it — after all, urinary incontinence does not make for scintillating dinner party conversation — but it seems the old stigma beginning to fade.