About 8.8 percent of the population in the U.S. will experience the pain of a kidney stone, according to a 2012 study published in European Urology. That adds up to about half a million people every year, or 1 in 10, and those numbers are rising, the National Kidney Foundation says. But what happens if you […]
Spina bifida is one of the most common congenital disabilities affecting the central nervous system. It affects roughly 1 in 2,875 births in the United States each year, and happens when the spinal column doesn’t fully close during early development in the womb, affecting nerves, muscles, and organs in different ways.¹ The condition ranges in […]
PSA, or prostate-specific antigen, is a protein in the blood produced by the prostate. It is used as an indicator in a man’s blood to determine the health of the prostate. An elevated PSA can indicate prostate cancer, but other non-cancerous issues can cause elevated PSA as well. Two of the most common non-cancerous causes […]
