For the first time, scientists have discovered evidence of bacteria hiding in 'noninfectious' kidney stones. These hardened ...

For decades, kidney stones have been treated as inert pebbles that simply precipitate out of urine, a plumbing problem inside the body. New imaging and microbiology work now suggest that view is badly ...

A team of researchers at UCLA has reported an unexpected twist in a condition long treated as a crystal chemistry problem. In samples of the most common kidney stone, they found bacteria living inside ...

In an unexpected finding, a UCLA-led team has discovered that bacteria are present inside the most common type of kidney ...

Sharp, solid stones form inside the human body more often than you might think. Watch and listen to episode two of The ...