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Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave ...

The fact that her left sided pain gets better after antibiotics also suggests that her left kidney may be affected by the urine infection which clears up with each antibiotic course.

Background: Kidney stones are a prevalent disorder that is linked to a range of metabolic variables. The cardiometabolic index (CMI) is a newly developed combined measure used to evaluate the state of ...

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 ...

Eighty six patients of studied samples were male and thirty four were female in group I. In group II, ninety patients were male and thirty were female. There was no statistically significant ...

A brave young man facing terminal cancer has shared his shock at receiving the life-altering diagnosis, especially after doctors initially thought his symptoms might just be growing pains.

A young man facing terminal cancer has shared his heart-wrenching experience of being "unprepared" for his diagnosis, after doctors initially said his symptoms might be due to growing pains.

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a very rare X-linked recessive disorder caused by mutation in the gene encoding enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT). A complete deficiency of HPRT ...

Andrew Scott has revealed that the 2020 SAG Awards was a memorable night for him – and not just because he was nominated. Scott described what he had been through in a red-carpet interview that ...

Recent study is the first to show improved survival of patients on dialysis whose kidney failure is due to kidney stones vs other causes Kidney stone-related kidney failure (KF) is associated with ...