What can I do for kidney stones?
I also had to have a urine bag for seven days after the surgery. Could it have come from where they inserted the tube in my kidney? I have had surgery for kidney stones in the past. I believe I recently passed another stone. Is this possible? What …
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Women suffer late diagnoses of kidney and bladder cancer
Researchers from Cambridge University studied data on patients diagnosed with kidney or bladder cancer in England between 2009 and 2010 from 1170 GPs' surgeries – about 14 per cent of all those in the country. The records covered 920 bladder cancer …
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Gender Inequalities Exist in Diagnosis of Bladder, Renal Cancers
General practitioners took longer to suspect a diagnosis of bladder or renal cancer in women compared with men, according to a study recently published in BMJ Open. Specifically, women required more pre-referral visits and had a greater number of days …
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Female kidney and bladder cancers diagnosed late
"Women with kidney or bladder cancer are twice as likely as men to need multiple visits to their doctor before being diagnosed," reports The Daily Telegraph. Previous research has found that in England there is a slightly higher five-year survival rate …
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'Untapped potential': Training could be life-saving
An untreated UTI may travel into the bladder, the kidney and then the bloodstream. People with UTIs are 30 times more likely to develop bladder cancer, she said. "It's not until (people with disabilities) are so severely sick from this infection that …
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The Kidneys And Bladder
Printing a Human Kidney on Stage
Image by jurvetson
Dr. Anthony Atala shows a kidney created layer by layer by the printer in the background. A modified desktop ink jet printer sprays cells instead of inks. The cells are cultured from the patient and the structural template for the kidney comes from MRI scans (so it will be the right size and shape).
The TED Video just went online.
Using similar technology, Atala constructed a bladder for a young boy, Jake, 10 years ago. At the end of the talk (photo below), Jake rejoined the good doctor on stage to thank him.
