Urinary Tract Issues Articles

Every year 65,000 people in the United States alone are diagnosed with kidney cancer. Now doctors report that people who use non-steroidal antiinflammatory medications such as ibuprofen and naproxen sodium may be at elevated risk for the disease.

The kidneys and the back can cause very similar pain but require very different treatments. Pain in the kidneys may indicate the need for treating kidney stones or an infection. A very similar pain in the back might be resolved with gentle exercise.

If you have ever had kidney stones, you are not likely to forget the experience.

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are not an embarrassing disease as many people think. They are very common; in fact, respiratory infections are the only infections more common than urinary tract infections.

Kidney stones are made of salts and minerals in the urine that stick together to form small pebbles. They can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball depending on patient.

It has been estimated by the American Cancer Society that about 51,000 American individuals are diagnosed with kidney cancer every year. The National Cancer Institute has estimated that about 50,000 new cases of kidney cancer would be diagnosed in 2009.

Pink or red urine frequently, but not always, indicates the presence of blood in the urine. Do you have a kidney problem, or could something else be the matter?

Cloudy urine has a huge variety of possible causes, some of which are very serious. Reading about them should be enough to convince you to see a doctor if you have been passing cloudy urine for some time now.

Green might be the color of nature, but it's hardly natural if your urine is green! Should you be worried?

Of all the abnormal urine colors, blue really stands out — both in terms of fright factor and rarity. What could be behind YOUR blue urine?