Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The four ...

A urostomy is an abdominal wall opening that allows urine to leave the body through a stoma. A nephrostomy is a temporary tube to drain urine directly from one or both kidneys. A urostomy takes the ...

Your kidneys make urine, a fluid made of liquid wastes filtered from your blood. This fluid travels down your ureter tubes to your bladder, and from there, it passes through the urethra and out of ...