“The Southeast is the Stone Belt of America,” says Assimos ... “However, the prevalence of kidney stone formation is also increasing across the country,” he says. The number of Americans with kidney ...

Interestingly, the Southeast is considered to be the kidney stone belt, a region of the country where there is the highest prevalence of kidney stone formers (Figure 2). There is ample evidence that ...

Anyone who's ever had a kidney stone will tell you there's nothing else like the mind-numbing, excruciating pain. Sometimes a patient will have a single stone and then never have a recurrence. Other ...