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Long-term complications of melamine consumption in children
Apr 26, 2009 |
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Children with a history of consuming melamine-contaminated milk powder are at an increased risk of developing kidney stones and other urological complications. Researchers presenting two studies at the 104th Annual Scientific ...
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More kidney stone disease projected due to global warming
Jul 14, 2008 |
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Global warming is likely to increase the proportion of the population affected by kidney stones by expanding the higher-risk region known as the "kidney-stone belt" into neighboring states, researchers at UT Southwestern ...
How to ... avoid kidney stones
Jul 17, 2009 |
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These solid masses that form in the kidneys can grow big enough to cause severe pain and even infection as they pass into the urinary tract.
Roux-en-Y weight loss surgery raises kidney stone risk
Jun 17, 2009 |
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The most popular type of gastric bypass surgery appears to nearly double the chance that a patient will develop kidney stones, despite earlier assumptions that it would not, Johns Hopkins doctors report in a new study. ...
Daily potassium citrate wards off kidney stones in seizure patients on high-fat diet
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Children on the high-fat ketogenic diet to control epileptic seizures can prevent the excruciatingly painful kidney stones that the diet can sometimes cause if they take a daily supplement of potassium citrate the day they ...
Of mice and men... and kidney stones
Mar 01, 2008 |
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Kidney stones are very common – and painful – in men. About 3 in 20 men (1 in 20 women) in developed countries develop them at some stage. Mice, however, rarely suffer though the precise reasons are unknown. Jeffrey S. Clark ...
Study finds bacteria may reduce risk for kidney stones
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center have found that the bacteria Oxalobacter formigenes (O. formigenes), a naturally occurring bacterium that has no known side effects, is associated with a 70 percent ...
Doctors say kidney stones in kids are on the rise
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Doctors are puzzling over what seems to be an increase in the number of children with kidney stones, a condition some blame on kids' love of cheeseburgers, fries and other salty foods.
"What's happening?" Twitter wants to know
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?"
Drinking green tea helps prevent kidney stones
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking green tea can help prevent the formation of large kidney stones, report Chinese scientists in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal CrystEngComm.
Talking increases kidney donation
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Get-togethers with a kidney disease patient's family and friends can improve their willingness to consider donation, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific ...
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