Current treatments for kidney stones are limited and sometimes painful. Research is changing what we thought we knew about their composition and behavior, suggesting that one day, we may fully dissolve them “right in the patient’s kidney.” They affect more men than women; more than 10 percent of men develop them, compared with 7.1 percent […]
Kidney stones are crystals comprised of a compound called calcium oxalate . Undoubtedly, kidney stones can cause extreme pain. According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), roughly 1 person in 10 develops kidney stones during their lifetime. It send more than 300,000 people to the emergency room each year. Healthy kidneys clean waste […]