Here's a diet &quot;do&quot; that may help keep your bladder cancer-free. Start your day with some yogurt. Later, have some more for a snack. Compared with their peers who never ate yogurt, people in a study who ate two or more servings daily had almost a

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When Nurse Jackie (Edie Falco) -- from the Showtime original series by the same name -- a married mother of two, was shagging her hospital&rsquo;s pharmacologist, fans suspected it was just to support her oxycodone habit. So when Jackie forged a document 

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With a kidney stone, it is best to avoid all osteolates such as spinach, chocolate, nuts and iced tea. Learn more from our experts about foods to avoid if you have kidney stones.

With a kidney stone, it is best to avoid all osteolates such as spinach, chocolate, nuts and iced tea.

What foods should I avoid if I have kidney stones?

There are a number of advantages to a live kidney transplant. Learn more from our experts about living donor kidney transplants.

A living donor kidney transplant has many advantages over a deceased donor kidney transplant. Currently, kidneys from living donors have a better long-term survival rate than kidneys from deceased donors, and the waiting time for a deceased donor kidney is approximately five years.

A living donor kidney transplant is scheduled and planned for, so the surgery takes place at a convenient time for everyone concerned. The waiting time for the recipient is minimal. In addition, the living donor and recipient operations take place at the same time, which means that the kidney is outside of the body for a short period of time, thus it is still warm when placed into the recipient&rsquo;s body. Kidneys from living donors usually start working immediately in the operating room whereas cold kidneys, or kidneys that have been out of the body for a longer period of time, may take several days to fully function.

Living donor kidney transplants are the ideal choice for various reasons:

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	<li>higher success rates</li>
	<li>better matching (blood relatives only)</li>
	<li>more convenient scheduling of surgery</li>
	<li>less medications needed&nbsp;</li>
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What are the advantages of a living donor kidney transplant?

Sphincter muscles surround the urethra and should remain closed unless voluntarily opened to void urine.  Learn more from our experts about sphincter muscles.

A sphincter is a muscle that surrounds a body opening (the urethra or the anus, for example) and which should unconsciously remained tightly closed. During urination, sphincters relax and open when messages are relayed from your nerves and your brain to the pelvic floor muscles. Internal and external sphincter muscles control the storage and voiding of urine. The internal sphincter instinctively squeezes the urethra closed.

The external sphincter is more under your control for short periods of time and can be squeezed to prevent the leakage of urine when you sneeze, cough, laugh, or do anything that puts additional pressure on your bladder. The internal and external sphincter muscles work in tandem, expanding and contracting as the bladder fills and empties. Nerves automatically relay messages to your muscles ensuring that the sphincters remain closed and that you don&rsquo;t leak.

When enough urine has accumulated in the bladder and it has filled to the point that its internal pressure has increased and its bladder wall has stretched, your nervous system sends a message to your brain, which in turn sends a message to your bladder&rsquo;s detrusor muscle, telling it to relax the internal sphincter muscle. When that happens, the external sphincter muscle becomes tight, and you have a distinct urge to urinate. When you are ready to urinate, you relax your external sphincter, and urine flows.

What role do sphincter muscles have in urination?

After surgery, you might have trouble urinating. This might be due to your surgery. But it may also…Learn more from our experts about urinating after abdominal surgery.

Urination trouble after abdominal surgery is quite common because of the anesthesia used during surgery.

What should I do if I have trouble urinating after abdominal surgery?

Several conditions can cause hematuria, most of them not serious.

Hematuria, or blood in the urine, almost always indicates an abnormality, unless atrophic vaginitis and cystitis (thinning of the vaginal and bladder tissues due to a lack of estrogen) is the culprit, or unless menstrual blood happens to accidentally get into the urine. Hematuria is generally caused by a bladder infection and is easily cured with the proper dosage of antibiotics.

Blood in the urine, however, may also indicate more severe problems, such as bladder cancer or kidney cancer. If you suspect blood in your urine, see a doctor immediately.

What causes hematuria?

A nephrologist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases of the kidneys. Learn more from our experts about nephrologists.

A nephrologist is a physician that predominantly deals with the kidney.

What is a nephrologist?

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