Over half a million people go to emergency rooms for kidney stones every year, according to the National Kidney Foundation.

Understanding the link between obesity, fatty liver disease and kidney stones provides a new perspective on prevention and ...

Kidney stones, medically termed as renal calculus, are hard, stone-like structures that form inside either or both the ...

As America's climate warms, the so-called "Kidney Stone Belt" is moving out of the South and Southwest, turning it into a ...

Quantification of Human Uridine-Diphosphate Glucuronosyl Transferase 1A Isoforms in Liver, Intestine, and Kidney Using Nanobore Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry ...

The terahertz (THz) absorption properties of calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate, which are the main components of kidney stone, are investigated experimentally in the frequency ...

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UB researcher Viviana Monje and colleagues have been awarded a $1.2 million grant to study how the popular aquarium fish ...

INTRODUCTION Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is the gold standard treatment for large kidney stones (1, 2), taking the place of morbid and invasive open surgery. Much discussion has emerged in the ...

However, the success of SWL also depends on the size and composition of the calculus, its location in the kidney, the anatomy of the urinary tract and some personal factors such as body mass index or ...

"Well, one MRI later, and they discovered that her little spine-adjacent cyst was actually an ovarian cyst. The anatomically ...

Objective: The purpose of this work is to study whether the active state and species of biological tissues can influence changes in their dielectric properties. Methods: In this paper, the dielectric ...