Health and Fitness

A group of doctors aims to find out why and how kidney stones form, and what can be done to stop them? Anyone who’s ever had a kidney stone knows how painful they can be. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are working to make that pain a thing of the past. Their [...]

Earlier, the diagnosis of kidney stones did not involve information regarding the fragility of the stones. This made it impossible to determine the intensity and number of shock waves required during Lithotripsy to disintegrate the stone. Many patients would end up receiving more shock waves than was necessary to break up their stones. To regulate [...]

Contrary to the misconception that only adults develop stones, it has been found that kidney stones also occur in children. This holds true for children living in hot climates or with any birth defects in their urinary tract. A child may complain of burning on and off, while passing urine; may have backaches; Urine analysis [...]

To estimate the trend in the incidence of first kidney stone among persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) as well as the potential contributing factors, researchers used Twenty-one Model SCI Care Systems throughout the United States. 8314 subjects enrolled in the National SCI Database were used to estimate and compare the incidence of first kidney [...]

People with type 2 diabetes have highly acidic urine, a metabolic feature that explains their greater risk for developing uric-acid kidney stones. Individuals with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus) are at increased risk for developing kidney stones in general, and have a particular risk for uric-acid stones. Researchers are trying to find out [...]