Discover the 6 telltale signs of kidney stones that send half a million Americans to emergency rooms yearly, plus prevention ...

Now 25, Pleskoff, a Seattle native who has endured more than 30 kidney stones, is part of a troubling trend in pediatric ...

The treatment of kidney stones could soon be getting much faster, easier, and safer. Scientists have devised a method of ...

Kidney stones form due to high levels of minerals in the urine, such as calcium, oxalate, and phosphorus. High levels of these minerals may result from diet, medications, and certain medical ...

Recently, a friend asked me about tonsil stones. He has sore throats several times a year, which are instantly relieved by gargling to remove them. When I told him I thought tonsil stones were pretty ...

Anyone who has ever had a kidney stone will probably never forget it. “They can be incredibly painful,” said pediatrician Christine Ashburn, with Kaiser Permanente. Kidney stones are formed ...

Kidney stones are solid accumulations that tend to form in the kidneys but can occur throughout the urinary system. Obstruction, pain and secondary infection are the most common symptoms with kidney ...

"Waking up in absolute agony with possible kidney stones is not how I planned to start my day… but here we are!" he said, according to the Mirror. Later, he also snapped a picture of the water ...

Most people can pass kidney stones naturally, though it can be incredibly painful. Depending on their size, they can block the flow of urine, leading to potentially life-threatening infections and ...

A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), belonging to the Research Institute for Molecular Imaging Technologies (I3M), has developed, ...

His lower right side was aching, and he was throwing up. At the emergency room, it turned out that he was passing a kidney stone. He’s only 13 years old — isn’t that much too young? How does he stop ...

Kidney stone cases are rising among children ... “Historically, stones were pretty much a disease of white, middle-aged men, but that’s changed dramatically over the last 30 years,” said ...