Stone disease occurs when jagged mineral crystals form in urine within the kidney. This excruciating problem affects roughly one in 10 adults and is steadily rising, especially in women and ...

Passing kidney stones is supposedly one of the most painful experiences a person can go through, and these images of one under a scanning electron microscope show us what they look like up close ...

Researchers have applied Nobel prize-winning microscope technology to uncover an ion channel structure that could lead to new treatments for kidney stones. The study published in Nature Structural ...

Here's what kidney stones are, what causes them and how you can expect to have them treated if they affect you or someone you ...

Chronic kidney disease often doesn't cause symptoms ... or kidney stone, it can also indicate kidney disease. ... when your healthcare provider looks at a sample of your pee under a microscope.

Surprisingly, asymptomatic stone formers are also at higher risk for renal disease, "even after adjustment for things like chronic kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol ...

Our multidisciplinary collaborative research focuses on the most common form of kidney stone disease (KSD), calcium oxalate (CaOx) KSD, and involves investigations with cultured cells, mouse models, ...

May 24, 2012 (Atlanta, Georgia) — The burgeoning obesity epidemic might be linked to yet another health problem; there has been a near doubling in the incidence of kidney stones since a previous ...

Glomerulonephritis is an inflammatory disease of the kidney that can lead to the need for transplantation or regular dialysis. ... Kidney failure under the microscope. Monash University.