Sweet tea, beer and (ouch) kidney stones
Then one day last month, he felt some pressure in his abdomen and had trouble emptying his bladder. He thought maybe he had a kidney infection. But after a few tests, the label salesman was told he had a kidney stone 7 millimeters in diameter, or …
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Genetic mutation causes kidney defects
Columbia University researchers studied a family on the island of Sardinia with inherited kidney and urinary tract defects. Several members of the family had suffered kidney failure at a young age. All of the family members with kidney and urinary …
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Lord's groundsman Mick Hunt in cancer battle – CHARLES SALE
Mick Hunt, the best-known groundsman in cricket after almost half a century at Lord's, has spent the last five years fighting serious illness. The 61-year-old was diagnosed with cancer of the kidney and bladder in 2008, when he had two tumours removed.
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Use of PAX8 and GATA3 in diagnosing sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma and …
PAX8 and GATA3 were also evaluated in TMAs from 161 sarcomas from other sites, 14 atypical epithelioid angiomyolipomas (AMLs) of the kidney, 23 bladder inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs), and 2 bladder and 4 renal leiomyosarcomas. In the …
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How the West was won
The lowdown on how the Comanche used every sinew of the buffalo is reported down to the kidney tallow and gall bladder bile. Characterisation is deft: Peter's brother "inherited my father's great ability to make any compliment sound patronising".
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