Urology
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 Pediatric kidney stones on the riseThe Pediatric Kidney Stone Center's co-directors discuss why kidney stones are becoming more common in children and how metabolic evaluation can help prevent them. |
 In his own wordsJames Mandell, MD, is president and CEO of Boston Children's Hospital as well as a pediatric urologist. |
 Robotic surgery steps up to the plateUrologist Hiep Nguyen, MD, used "the robot" to reconstruct a teen's obstructed ureter. This technique offers the best of two surgical worlds--the precision of traditional surgery and the quick recovery from a minimally invasive procedure. |
 Lab-grown organs are science fiction no longerBOSTON - The once-fanciful dream of regrowing the heart and other failing organs has suddenly edged closer to reality: The first complex organ, the bladder, has been rebuilt in seven patients from living tissue cultivated in the lab. Photo: Wake Forest University School of Medicine. |
 First Bladders Grown in Lab TransplantedWashington Post By Rick Weiss Researchers have grown urinary bladders in a lab and transplanted them into patients, improving their health and achieving the first cultivation of working replacements for failing solid organs in people. |
 Webcast: Robotically-Assisted Pediatric Urology SurgeryView live from the operating room a pediatric robotic-assistedlaparoscopic pyeloplasty to remove an obstruction from a patient's kidney and reconnect the kidney's drainage system. |
 Boston Children's Hospital's Center for ExstrophyQ&A on exstrophy of the bladder with Joseph Borer, MD, Alan Retik, MD, and Rosemary Grant, RN. |
