Almost one in 10 people will someday experience a kidney stone, which creates what is described as the most intense pain imaginable. This increasingly common condition leads to hundreds of thousands ...

Aria Moreno, a first year medical student at Hofstra University on Long Island, told WABC, NBC New York and News 12 Long ...

The Break Wave system for extracorporeal lithotripsy via ultrasound showed early efficacy with minimal anesthesia in a pilot trial. In a separate trial, ultrasonic propulsion repositioned and ...

When Aria Moreno volunteered for a class demonstration, she had no idea the doctor would find something wrong with her ...

A noninvasive ultrasound technique is capable of quickly pulverizing kidney stones, an early study shows -- in what researchers call a first step toward a simpler, anesthesia-free treatment for the ...

A new ultrasound treatment for kidney stones might provide pain-free relief while the patient is awake, researchers say. Kidney stones are often excruciatingly painful. In most cases, patients are ...

Ultrasound Effective for Detecting Kidney Stones It also may provide an alternative to conventional fluoroscopy in guiding ureteroscopy for ureteral stones. Ultrasound is safe and effective when used ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using the sound waves of an ultrasound to detect a painful kidney stone is just as effective as the X-rays of a CT scan, and exposes patients to much less harmful radiation ...

A new technology may allow physicians to use ultrasound waves to push kidney stones out of a patient’s body after treatment, including patients who may be in space. A team of researchers at the Kidney ...

First-year medical student Aria Moreno volunteered to get an ultrasound during her class, which revealed she had a large mass ...

To diagnose painful kidney stones in hospital emergency rooms, CT scans are no better than less-often-used ultrasound exams, according to a clinical study conducted at 15 medical centers. "Ultrasound ...

Treatment with transcutaneous, focused ultrasound safely led to the repositioning and rupture of a majority of stones in the ureter when tested in 29 people at two US centers in the first human ...