NEW DELHI: Researchers, who reviewed 18 studies on benefits of drinking water, found the most evidence related to preventing kidney stones and helping people lose weight. Drinking eight cups of ...

The stones may block urine flow and can, in severe instances, result in renal failure. The most common type of kidney stone forms when calcium and oxalate clump together in concentrated urine. A less ...

12,000-year-old perforated stones found over years of excavations in Israel may "represent early evidence for the adoption of spinning with the ’spindle and whorl' device," according to newly ...

Discovery explains kidney damage caused by blood pressure drugs Date: November 21, 2024 Source: University of Virginia Health System Summary: Scientists have discovered how long-term treatment of ...

diagnostic testing for kidney stones consists of several tools including imaging studies such as kidney ultrasound, abdominal X-rays,abdominal CT scans or retrograde pyelogram, as well as urine, ...

The stones studied in the new paper, recovered from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in northern Israel, date back approximately 12,000 years, during the important transition to an agricultural ...

Traditionally, oxalate has been relegated to the status of a metabolic by-product, the role of which in stone disease is limited ... The incidence of calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis is increasing ...