The risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) or heart failure (HF), or dying, following a type 2 diabetes (T2D) ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents a significant global health burden, highlighting the need for low-cost, easily accessible biomarkers for early risk detection. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ...

Updated consumer resource explains eGFR and UACR testing, individualized nutrition, medication oversight and how to ...

Intradialytic exercise (ID) programs are effective and safe for hemodialysis (HD) patients to avoid functional deterioration. However, exercise is not routinely undertaken in most HD units, and we do ...

A Florence County woman is waiting for a life-changing gift: a kidney. Brittany Hood, 35, has polycystic kidney disease, a ...

In a cohort of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), urinary albumin-creatinine ratio (UACR) and urinary ...

Treatments for acute renal failure may include stopping the use of nephrotoxic drugs, which can damage the kidneys, and monitoring any underlying conditions that those drugs were treating. Short-term ...

Treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) focuses on slowing disease progression toward kidney failure, reducing cardiovascular risk, and addressing complications such as anemia and mineral bone ...

Kidney failure refers to when a person’s kidney function drops significantly. Sudden kidney failure is acute kidney injury (AKI) and can cause death in extreme cases. Healthy kidneys filter waste and ...

A late-stage test of Roche and Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ sefaxersen showed that the drug reduced protein in the urine, which ...

A mysterious chronic kidney disease devastating Central America's agricultural workers appears to have surfaced among Texas ...

Kidney failure cases are rising in the Ankole sub-region, with Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital recording 450 cases last ...