Renal colic (spasms of pain in the back usually caused by kidney stones) occurs in a circadian pattern, finds a study in this week’s BMJ. Researchers reviewed all episodes of renal colic from 1990 to ...

People may experience pain in their left kidney due to infection or one of several underlying conditions, including kidney stones and cysts in the kidney. The kidneys are a pair of organs in the ...

With kidney disease on the rise worldwide, we asked the nation's top specialists to share the early signs of the condition.

Most conditions that cause kidney (renal) pain impact just one of your kidneys. Pain in the area of your right kidney could indicate a kidney problem or be related to a problem with nearby organs, ...

Many benign kidney tumors don’t cause symptoms. But when symptoms do occur, they can include blood in the urine and pain in the lower back or between the ribs and hips. Benign kidney tumors are ...

Chronic kidney disease or CKD, is a condition that builds over time, as a result of inappropriate kidney function. The primary job of our kidneys is to filter out the excess water and fluids from the ...

Doctors often use 'renal failure' and 'kidney failure' interchangeably, both signifying a critical loss of kidney function. While 'renal' stems from Latin for kidneys and is common in medical jargon, ...

This was a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, parallel-group trial comparing dexketoprofen trometamol 25 and 50mg with dipyrone 2g in patients with moderate to severe pain due to renal colic.