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Welcome to the International Painful Bladder Foundation
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The IPBF is a non-profit voluntary organisation which promotes knowledge and awareness of painful bladder syndrome, interstitial cystitis, bladder pain, chronic pelvic pain, overactive bladder, incontinence and associated disorders among patients, patient support groups, health professionals and the general public worldwide.

 
     

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  • For the latest scientific literature: Click here...

  • Newsletter March 2008. Read more...

  • A review of the 23rd Annual Congress of the European Association of Urology. 26-29 March 2008, Milan, Italy. Read more...

  • Review of the International Alliance of Patients Organizations (IAPO) 3rd Global Congress, 20-22 February 2008, Budapest, Hungary. Read more...

  • NIDDK INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, Defining the Urologic Chronic Pain Syndromes, 16-17 June 2008, Bethesda MD, USA. Read more...
  • A Review of the 37th Annual Conference of the International Continence Society, 20-24 August 2007, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Read more...

  • A Review of the American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Conference May 19-24 2007, Anaheim CA, USA. Read more ...
     
  • IPBF participates in IAPO top conference on Patient-Centred Healthcare at the United Nations, New York, 30 March 2007. Read more....

  • ICICJ symposium and consultation in Kyoto, March 2007. A review by Nagendra Mishra MD. Read more...

  • Review of the 36th Annual Conference of the International Continence Society. Read more...
     
  • Frontiers in Painful Bladder Syndrome and Interstitial Cystitis.
    2006 NIDDK Symposium: full summary report, pp 1-43.
    Read more...
     
  • "A Patient Survey on Nomenclature and Definition of Painful Bladder Syndrome / Interstitial Cystitis and the Nature of Urgency in PBS/IC Patients"
    a poster and abstract presented at the NIDDK international symposium on Frontiers in Painful Bladder Syndrome and Interstitial Cystitis. 26-27 October 2006, Bethesda. Full survey report...
     
  • Review of NIDDK international symposium on Frontiers in Painful Bladder Syndrome and Interstitial Cystitis, 26-27 October 2006, Bethesda. Read more...
     
  • IXth International Symposium on Sjögren’s Syndrome, Washington DC, 27-29 April 2006. Read more...
     
 
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