Misconceptions are as common as kidney stones themselves. Here are facts about how they form and should be diagnosed and ...

It’s possible to dissolve and pass kidney stones with herbs that have diuretic effects, depending on the stone size. Find a ...

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Kidney stones and gallstones may increase the risk for prostate cancer, which could have implications for disease monitoring and prevention in specific populations. Patients with kidney stones or ...

For patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a common genetic disorder that ravages the waste-removing organ with cysts ...

New evidence published in Cell provides insight into the interplay between hypoxia-inducible factor activity and downstream neoantigen production in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). Jiang et ...

The function of the ureter is to carry the urine produced in the kidney to the bladder, where it is eventually urinated out. Ureteropelvic junction obstruction occurs when the junction (called the ...

Potassium is essential for kidney function. Too much or too little potassium can affect this function and lead to complications. Potassium plays a key role in a number of bodily processes ...

“These findings highlight the importance of monitoring kidney stones, even in the absence of symptoms, to mitigate their impact on renal dysfunction,” Omer Celal Elcioglu, MD, of Bezmialem ...

Later, she received an unexpected diagnosis: kidney stones, typically an affliction of older adults. Now 25, Pleskoff, a Seattle native who has endured more than 30 kidney stones, is part of a ...

During her hospital stay, she was given morphine for the pain and eventually passed a kidney stone. She attributed her symptoms to excessive protein intake. The New York Post reported that Catherine ...

Then, one day, she woke up to find she was urinating blood. She was rushed to the emergency room, put on morphine and diagnosed with a kidney stone. “I literally woke up one day and I was peeing ...