Kidney stones can cause some of the most intense pain people ever experience, affecting daily life and leading many to hospital emergency visits. It affects one in 11 people in the U.S., and almost ...

Noticed blood in your urine and wondering if kidney stones could be the reason Here’s how kidney stones may sometimes cause hematuria what it means and when it may warrant medical attention ...

IgA nephropathy, an immune assault on the kidneys, is often missed. New treatments mean that spotting it sooner might save lives ...

One in ten emergency patients with visible blood in their urine dies within three months of presenting at hospital emergency ...

The next question researchers want to answer is whether urine-derived lymphocytes can actually help inform responses to ...

Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single scan, all with nanoscale precision. The instrument can even examine complete ...

Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella around their bodies and moving forward. Using a microfluidic device that mimics ...

A tiny crustacean discovered from the Kavaratti lagoon in the Lakshadweep islands has now been established as a new genus and a new species. The organism, which belongs to the family Laophontidae ...

Signs and symptoms of IgA nephropathy vary among individuals and may not manifest for years, even decades. If symptoms are present, common and early ones include blood in the urine, foamy urine, ...

What Is a Urine Test? Testing a urine sample can help doctors find out what's going on when someone has an infection or other problem in kidneys, bladder, or other parts of the urinary tract. To help ...

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