Dr MKO AbimbolaEnd-stage kidney dis­ease is the last stage (5th stage) of chronic kid­ney disease (CKD). ESRD is also called kidney fail­ure, which develops when the treatment of CKD is either delayed ...

Finding a match for an organ donation can be difficult, but a Nebraska Medicine program helped a Gibbon teenager get the kidney she needed.

Research led by Children's Hospital of Fudan University in China has found that a gene called pancreatic progenitor cell ...

Elizabeth Knowles’ baby sister, Jermeek Rolle, is her hero – literally. She donated a kidney to her sister who was in end ...

Our kidneys take on the weighty need of filtrating virtually fifty gallons of blood on a daily basis. And, our eating habits do impose unperceived stress on these vital organs. Nowadays, the ...

Kathleen Beightol found out her husband had a donor match for a kidney transplant, she was overwhelmed with emotion. “I’d been crying all week,” she told the Eagle. David Beightol, her husband, was ...

In this video, Girish N Nadkarni, MD, a professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses recent advancements in chronic kidney disease care.

Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave ...

Diabetes and high blood pressure are the most common causes of kidney disease.

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

March is Kidney Cancer Awareness Month, highlighting the disease, early detection and and patient advocacy, with voices like ...