In summary, this study highlights the importance of recognizing high blood pressure as not just a heart risk, but also a ...

More than 1 in 7 adults are estimated to have chronic kidney disease, which is a progressive decrease in kidney function. As many as 9 in 10 of them don’t know they have it.

Professor Kenji Osafune (Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation) and his team of researchers have devised an effective ...

With two high-profile NBA stars suffering from blood clots recently, we asked doctors how they happen and if they are occurring more often.

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Renal artery stenosis is the narrowing of one or both blood vessels to the kidneys. The ...

Nellie Zygiel of Fairhaven has battled illness much of her life. Diagnosed with a rare disease, her life has been saved ...

High blood pressure isn’t classified as heart disease, but it plays a crucial role in the development of heart disease and other health issues.

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they ...

"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told ...

March is known for many things and among the madness that it always brings, it’s known for National Kidney Awareness Month.  Somewhere around 30 million Americans have various kidney diseases and ...

The consequence of low blood protein depends on how low the protein becomes, which protein is low, and the cause of the low ...