University at Buffalo researcher Viviana Monje and colleagues awarded $1.2 million grant to study how popular aquarium fish ...

First author and urologist José Agudelo, MD, who has extensive experience in urinary stone disease, explains that previous indirect findings of a kidney microbiome gave compelling evidence but ...

Grant will lead to the creation of USDHub, a novel research tool bringing together research and clinical data from hundreds of thousands of kidney stone patients of all ages PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15 ...

Kindly let me know what causes Kidney stones and how to avoid them.Fatima (by SMS)Kidney stones are solid masses or crystals that form from substances (like minerals, acids and salts) in your kidneys.

Kidney stones are an annoying, painful condition that affects many of us, but it's not easy to tell when they form. A scientist who carbon dates objects for a living decided to work out the age of ...

The world’s largest kidney stone has been removed from a patient in Sri Lanka – and it’s about the size of a grapefuit, as long as a banana and as heavy as four hamsters.

People who have had a kidney stone face about a 30 percent chance of having another within five years, but dietary changes may help prevent a recurrence, Mayo Clinic researchers say. Increasing ...

Kidney stones usually pass on their own without causing any long-term problems.If they don't, or if you're in a lot of pain, your doctor can break up or remove the crystals. Your treatment depends ...

Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant ... Smith AC, Hanley JM, Saigal CS, Urologic Diseases in America Project. Prevalence of kidney stones in the United States. Eur Urol 2012 ...

UB researchers are studying if zebrafish, a popular aquarium fish whose genetic and physiological makeup is similar to humans, might be key to unlocking new treatments for kidney stones and gout. The ...