June 14, 2019
This woman’s lower back pain turned out to be a rare kidney disorder
Reader’s Digest Canadaby Lisa Bendall …Nephrologist Andrew Rule ascertained from additional blood tests that Samantha’s kidneys were losing function rapidly; he guessed that something could be causing inflammation of her glomeruli, networks of tiny blood vessels in the kidneys that help filter waste. Rule ordered new tests to look for possible causes, such as lupus, […]
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February 17, 2018
Kidney stones on the rise in US, study suggests
CNN by Mark Lieber Kidney stones may be increasing among both men and women in the US, a new study says. The study, published Monday in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, looks at the prevalence of kidney stones over a period of almost three decades — from 1984 to 2012 — among more than 10,000 […]
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August 14, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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