One in 10 Americans will be affected by kidney stones at some point in their life and about a million patients will experience a kidney stone attack this year. While most stones will pass on their own ...

During a procedure known as laser lithotripsy, urologists use a small, video-guided laser to blast painful, potentially damaging kidney stones to smithereens. It's better for the patient if urologists ...

Kidney stones can be painful, but doctors at the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State teamed up with a company to make treatment easier for patients in a way never done before. A two-month trial that ...

Carson Tahoe Health is among the first in the Northern Nevada region to utilize the Olympus Soltive™ SuperPulsed Laser System in urology procedures. Soltive is an elegant new laser technology that ...

A randomized trial found a similar stone-free rate after pulse-modulated Holmium:YAG (Ho:YAG) laser vs thulium fiber laser (TFL) treatment of kidney stones. An investigator reported trial data during ...

Olympus has launched a new laser platform intended for soft tissue applications and for lithotripsy, the destruction of hard masses within the body including in particular kidney stones. The Soltive ...

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja has again led public health institutions, as it successfully performed its first LASER Lithotripsy on October 28. LASUTH now has a full ...

Although some kidney stones can be treated with medication, larger ones are often broken up with an endoscopic laser. A new hydrogel is now claimed to be capable of removing even the smallest of the ...

Kidney stones afflict approximately one in nine individuals, causing intense pain and serious infections. With over 1.3 million emergency room visits and healthcare expenditures exceeding $5 billion ...

Medical device company Boston Scientific Corp. intends to pay more than $1 billion to acquire the maker of a lucrative laser system used to treat kidney stones — a system that it already distributes ...

Kidney stones are often removed via an endoscopic procedure. If a stone is too large, the urologists break it into pieces using a laser. The larger pieces can be removed with a grasping instrument, ...

Kidney stones can be painful, but doctors at the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State teamed up with a company to make treatment easier for patients in a way never done before. A two-month trial that ...