High uric acid can lead to painful gout, kidney stones, or even kidney dysfunction. Know everything about uric acid tests and why they are crucial for health.

Caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomitis and spread through personal contact and interaction with contaminated surfaces ...

When too much of it builds up, it can crystallize painfully in our joints, causing gout, or solidify into kidney stones. In ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising details about how reptiles excrete waste in crystal form. Learn what makes their pee ...

The findings underscore the need to explore alternative therapeutic approaches to managing persistent symptoms, the authors ...

Crystals "peed" by snakes could hold the key to treating kidney stones and gout in humans, say scientists. Get a free dose of ...

For researchers, including Georgetown University chemist Jennifer Swift, analyzing reptilian pee crystals presented an ...

Reptiles produce crystal "pee," which, in humans, would cause gout or kidney stones. But this seems to be working out great ...

Do reptiles pee liquid urine? It’s not a question I thought I’d be asking myself when I woke up this morning, but life comes ...

Reptiles don’t urinate like humans do; instead, they pass these solid “urates” (left). Researchers found that urates consist ...

Researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Chemical Society investigated the solid urine of more than 20 reptile ...

Unless you've owned reptiles, you might not know that many of them "pee" crystals. Researchers publishing in the Journal of ...