Why it matters: Ultrasound offers a radiation-free, immediate view of the urinary system, making it ideal for detecting stones, obstruction, and bladder wall changes. How it's done: Using a ...

Scientists are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or having to take harsh drugs to suppress their immune system after a ...

Rebecca King Crews talks about how husband Terry first told her about a new FDA approval for focused ultrasound for treating ...

Kidney stones can cause sudden and intense pain, often sending people straight to the emergency room. Once symptoms begin, the next important step is confirming the diagnosis through imaging tests.

Calyxo has raised $40m in a financing round; at the same time, the company has achieved a milestone of 40,000 kidney stone removal procedures completed with its central venous access catheter (CVAC) ...

Super-resolution ultrasound microvascular imaging, known as ultrasound localization microscopy, was a safe, reliable, and reproducible noninvasive imaging method that quantified intrarenal ...

Aria Moreno was excited when she walked into class on Hofstra University’s campus in Long Island. It was late August, her fourth week of medical school, and Moreno had volunteered to undergo an ...

"I saved an organ essentially by volunteering that day," student Aria Moreno said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also published ...

Experts say we’re in a golden age for treating chronic kidney disease, with new drugs like Ozempic yielding major results. Will dialysis and organ transplants become a thing of the past? A healthy ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is superior to contrast magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT), and offers 100% sensitivity and specificity, for finding ...

We retrospectively reviewed the charts of urolithiasis patients who had undergone ultrasound-guided PCNL in our department from March 2021 to December 2024 and identified 76 eligible patients.