Columnist Betty Vertin hopes her family's experience with kidney stones might help you be better prepared while living with DMD.

Treatment takes less than an hour, enabling the patient to go home the same day,” says the doctor. “Kidney, urinary tract, bladder, or ureter stones are treated in several ways including ...

The device uses external ultrasound pulses to facilitate the passage of residual fragments in a clinical setting.

Another problem is that many kidney doctors graduate from training without feeling prepared to treat patients on home dialysis. The American Society of Nephrology and other organizations are ...

Kidney transplantation is an alternative method for treating kidney failure and can save a patient's life. This procedure involves implanting a kidney from an organ donor into the patient’s body ...

With more than one in 10 people around the world suffering from them, kidney stones are an increasingly significant health burden 1. One region in China with an especially high incidence is the ...

However, kidney stones that are too large to pass on their own or cause bleeding, kidney damage or ongoing urinary tract infections may require surgical treatment. Dr. Aaron Potretzke, a Mayo ...

Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors used to treat diabetes may also reduce the risk of recurrent kidney stones and gout ...