In a recently published article in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Firat Bektas and colleagues from Akdeniz University, in Antalya, Turkey, conducted a randomized placebo-controlled trial comparing ...

Since renal colic pain caused by urinary stones is severe and sudden, an appropriate treatment is of great necessity. Narcotics have been considered as main treatment of renal colic for years ...

The pain, referred to as renal colic, occurs when a stone gets stuck in one of the two tubes that connect the kidneys to the bladder, called the ureters. When this happens, the walls of the ureter ...

The passing of a stone can cause sharp, often excruciating waves of pain known as renal colic. The pain occurs when a stone gets stuck in one of the tubes (ureters) that transfer urine from the ...