Shock waves, fiber optic telescopes, and lasers are among the high-tech tools we use in minimally-invasive surgery to break stones down to a size that can be easily passed. Kidney stones have troubled mankind for about as long as we’ve had kidneys. Scientists have even found evidence of kidney stones in a 7,000-year-old Egyptian mummy....Read More

How does a physician know that his or her patients are in compliance and responding to the treatment plan as well as they should be?  Were a patient to pass a kidney stone and then get no additional treatment nor adjust diet and fluid intake, he or she would have a 50 percent chance of...Read More

The last fifteen years have seen remarkable advances in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. new medications continue to be developed along with high-tech procedures to relieve urinary problems this condition causes. By the age of sixty, about 50 percent of American men will have developed benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). This enlargement of the prostate...Read More

“We’re very excited that we can offer these medications to patients,” says Dr. Peter Varunok, “and improve their lives and give them the chance to make hepatitis C a thing of the past.”  There are four things that people with hepatitis C, and those at risk of having the disease, need to know about teleprevir...Read More

It’s the second most common bacterial infection, affecting nearly 1 in 3 women by the age of 24. Treatment works wonderfully… if you seek it in time. Anyone can experience a urinary tract infection (UTI)—men, women, or children. But it’s women, far and away, who get the most UTIs and make the lion’s share of the annual...Read More

At least 3.2 million Americans are infected with the hepatitis C virus. About 2.5 million of them don’t know it. They risk becoming the victims of a silent epidemic. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic liver disease, in the U.S. and around the world. Nationally, about half of all cases of cirrhosis...Read More