If you’ve had kidney stones and other means of preventing recurrences haven’t worked, there are several prescription medications that may help. These include: Urocit-K 10 (potassium citrate) Thiazide ...

The diabetes drug semaglutide, also known as Ozempic, has a positive effect on patients with chronic kidney disease and ...

When a kidney stone is unable to move, the resulting blockage forces urine to back up into the kidney. This leads to mounting ...

Many people with this condition also experience pain near the kidneys due to various causes, including infections in the kidneys and urinary tract, bursting cysts, and kidney stones. Everyone ...

Most of us are familiar with the rumbling and grumbling that occasionally emerges from our belly after indulging in a big ...

A questionnaire was developed and mailed in March 1999 to 270 adult kidney transplant recipients ... patient's source of funding for immunosuppressive medications, such as prednisone and ...

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is a typical treatment, for stones within the kidney, that breaks the stone into smaller pieces that can be passed easily by using sound waves.

If Sam Wingate had a wall of heroes in his Scranton, home, MUSC Health Florence Medical Center urologist Dr. Karthik Tanneru ...

Share on Pinterest Bariatric surgery may be better for preserving kidney function in people with diabetes and obesity than GLP-1 drugs. Image credit: Ruben Earth/Getty Images. In a new study ...

Medication noncompliance remains a major barrier ... [4] Little is known about the specific determinants of noncompliance, especially in kidney transplant patients, in whom the problem is likely ...