More Kidney & Urinary News

• Kidney Donor's Sex Could Affect Women's Outcomes

  Aug. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Female kidney recipients whose donated organ came from a deceased ...

• Spleen May Help Heart Recover From Disease

  July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Though its reputation doesn't rank down there with the appendix, ...

• For Some Kidney Patients, Home Dialysis Is Better

  July 25 (HealthDay News) -- More than 340,000 Americans are on dialysis to treat kidney ...

• Fresh-Meat Additives May Be Dangerous for Kidney Patients

  July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Additives used to "enhance" uncooked meat and poultry can pose ...

• Lab Test Predicts Acute Kidney Injury in ICU Patients

  July 23 (HealthDay News) -- A new laboratory test can help predict if a person ...

• Baking Soda May Be Key Ingredient for Kidney Patients

  July 17 (HealthDay News) -- A dose of baking soda a day may slow the ...

• Drugs May Not Slow Kidney Damage in Diabetes

  July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Results from a new trial have dashed hopes that early ...

• Discovery Points to Regulation of Calcium Metabolism

  June 29 (HealthDay News) -- A gene variant that contributes to both kidney stones and ...

• New Cancer Drug Fights Tumors in Those With BRCA Mutations

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new cancer drug called olaparib worked well in an ...

• Common Weight-Loss Surgery May Double Risk of Kidney Stones

  June 22 (HealthDay News) -- A popular weight-loss surgery may double the risk of kidney ...

• Painkillers May Be Good for the Prostate

  June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Taking over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen might help ...

• Almost Half of Those Over 60 Die While Waiting for Kidney Transplant

  June 18 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly one of every two people over the age of ...

• Gene Test Helps Detect Prostate Cancer

  June 1 (HealthDay News) -- A new blood test greatly reduces false-positive results in prostate ...

• Sleeping Through Dialysis May Be the Way to Go

  May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Nighttime dialysis, done while people are asleep, not only frees ...

• Advanced Prostate Cancer Deadlier in Younger Men

  May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Younger men diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer don't live as ...

• Drug Combo Keeps Kidney Artery-Vein Grafts Viable

  May 20 (HealthDay News) -- A combination of aspirin and the anti-clotting drug dipyridamole reduces ...

• Study Reiterates Eye Risks Linked to Flomax

  May 19 (HealthDay News) -- Men taking Flomax to treat an enlarged prostate face more ...

• An Aid to Tailoring Prostate Cancer Treatment

  May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers claim to have found a way to better customize ...

• For Dialysis Patients, More Pills = Lower Quality of Life

  May 13 (HealthDay News) -- The more pills that kidney dialysis patients take, the more ...