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

A medical student in New York volunteered in class to have an ultrasound, which showed a large mass on her right kidney. Aria ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Ultrasound treatments could be used to prevent a common kidney complication than can arise after major surgery, researchers suggest. The work, published in the Journal of the American Society of ...

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 ...

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 ...

About one in 11 Americans will experience the discomfort of a kidney stone in their lifetime. While some might think of these pesky mineral clumps as earthly inconveniences, they’re a problem up in ...

A noninvasive, nonpharmacologic, ultrasound-based method of preventing renal ischemia–reperfusion injury could help prevent surgery-related acute kidney injury. Mice underwent the treatment 24 hours ...