Pee is your body’s liquid waste, mainly made of water, salt, electrolytes such as potassium and phosphorus, and chemicals called urea and uric acid. Your kidneys make it when they filter toxins ...

Investigators created a model for predicting the risk of urinary sepsis after endoscopic surgery for urinary stones using several key variables. A model incorporating values of stone composition and ...

Arthritis Care Research News Alerts. 2007;57(5):816-821. High uric acid levels in the blood are a precursor of gout, the most common inflammatory arthritis in adult men. It is believed that coffee ...

Birds also need to remove excess nitrogen from their systems, but they don’t make urea. Instead, their livers convert nitrogen into uric acid. This is excreted as a white, paste-like substance. But if ...