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 ...

Opioids have played a long-standing role in pain relief for acute renal colic, but nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) by virtue of inhibiting prostaglandins affect a basic pathway ...

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 ...