Many women experience bladder leakage as they age — sometimes with a cough or sneeze, sometimes with an urgent dash to the bathroom. A new study suggests there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to mixed urinary incontinence, but a tailored approach can help many find the treatment that will work best for them.

Conducted by the Pelvic Floors Disorder Network and funded by the National Institutes of Health, the study, published May 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, compared outcomes for mixed urinary incontinence patients after they received either a mid-urethral bladder sling — a surgical procedure — or injectable botulinum toxin A, better known as Botox.

While both treatments improved symptoms for most of the 150 study participants, researchers found no single best opti

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