The trial was conducted at Vanderbilt University Medical Center by co-lead investigators Nicholas Kavoussi and Ryan Hsi.

EndoTheia announced today that it completed the first-in-human clinical trial for its FlexStone basket, a steerable kidney ...

Kidney stones last days to weeks as they pass from the kidney down the urinary tract. This article explains what affects how ...

“The Southeast is the Stone Belt of America,” says Assimos, an internationally renowned expert who specializes in the removal of large stones and ... “However, the prevalence of kidney stone formation ...

The device uses external ultrasound pulses to facilitate the passage of residual fragments in a clinical setting.

Stone disease, one of the most painful of urologic disorders, is not a product of modern life. In fact, scientists have found evidence of kidney stones in a 7,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. A kidney ...

Gallstones are generally larger than kidney stones and the size if these stones is up to 5 cm. These stones may require surgical removal, and the procedure is called cholecystectomy.” ...