News and Features Related to Kidney Stones

1. Summer Tips to Avoid Kidney Stones
   

   This is a pain you never want to feel. Women say it's worse than labor pains. A kidney stone is a sharp piece of matter lodged in your delicate and nerve-rich urinary tract, which has spasms and tries to expel it. Ow! And this condition tends to happen more often in summer. A summer diet of barbecue

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2. Orange Juice Fights Kidney Stones
   

   Sept. 7, 2006 -- A glass of orange juice a day may keep kidney stones at bay. A new study shows that a daily glass of orange juice may help prevent recurrent kidney stones better than other citrus juices like lemonade. Researchers say many people assume that all citrus juices prevent the formation o

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3. Lemonade Helps Kidney Stones
   

   May 24, 2006 – If life gives you kidney stones kidney stones, make lemonade. New research shows that lemonade is an effective -- and delicious -- way for kidney-stone-prone people to slow the development of new stones. "When treating patients in our kidney stone center, we put everyone on lemonade t

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4. Diabetes From Kidney Stone Blaster?
   

   April 10, 2006 -- Pulverizing kidney stones with shock waves raises a person's risk of diabetes and high blood pressure, a new study shows. In the early 1980s, getting a kidney stone kidney stone often meant painful open surgery. Then came shock wave lithotripsy shock wave lithotripsy . This revolut

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5. Weight Gain, Obesity Linked to Kidney Stones
   

   Jan. 25, 2005 -- Being obese or gaining weight may increase the risk of developing painful kidney stones, and women may be especially vulnerable to these added risks, according to a new study. Researchers found women who weighed more than 220 pounds were 90% more likely to develop kidney stones than

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