Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that even slight abnormalities in kidney function—within the normal ...

Acute kidney injury, or AKI, is a dangerous condition that affects many people in hospitals, especially those in intensive ...

Scientists have discovered an answer to the longstanding mystery of why more than half of patients with chronic kidney ...

Sodium reduction and appropriate protein intake are central nutrition strategies for slowing kidney stress and supporting ...

Kidney failure has a significant impact on public health; about 750,000 Americans and 2 million people around the world are affected every year. People can be treated with dialysis or a transplant, ...

Even as a child, La’Tonzia Adams was interested in diagnosing disease. One day, when she noticed a bump on her chest, she decided to look up “chicken pox” in the Webster’s dictionary at her ...

Recently, my primary care physician spotted some abnormal numbers related to my kidney function. He suspects that this is ...

AKI or acute kidney injury is a complex clinical disorder frequently seen in hospitalized critically ill patients. 1 It is defined as a functional or structural kidney abnormality in which a patient ...

A Long Island teenager who has battled kidney disease since birth is now urgently searching for a living kidney donor as his ...