Fortunately, eight days after surgery, I received the pathology report and was elated to read that it was an oncocytoma ...

People who develop kidney stones show approximately twice the risk of developing kidney cancer compared with those without kidney stones, with the relationship observed across patient subgroups. These ...

Dear A.K.: Ogilvie syndrome is acute pseudo-obstruction of the colon. It is considered pseudo-obstruction because it looks ...

A new meta-analysis further supports the previously reported link between kidney stones and an increased risk for kidney ...

It was a usual Monday morning in my OPD this Sept when a young man in his early 30s walked in for what he believed would be a ...

On the list of medical terms we'd rather never hear, cancer is at the top. But when it comes to fighting it, knowledge is ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: When I was about 6 years old in the early 1940s, my 16-year-old brother was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. He was there for 18 months and was a survivor. During this ...

Surgical excision is the default treatment for incidentally detected localised renal tumours. However, this ‘one size fits all’ approach fails to acknowledge the broad biological spectrum of renal ...

Researchers used a deep learning AI model to uncover the first imaging-based biomarker of chronic stress by measuring adrenal gland volume on routine CT scans. This new metric, the Adrenal Volume ...

Richard Williams is a two-time kidney cancer survivor, but after years battling the disease, he now has another battle to overcome. Williams has Stage 5 kidney disease and has been on the kidney ...

Doctors Are Sounding the Alarm on Overused CT Scans :warning: A new study from Yale reveals a troubling trend — the use of head CT scans has doubled since 2007, and it could be silently driving up ...