Kidneys are vital organs responsible for filtering waste products, including creatinine, from the blood. Creatinine is 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 ...

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 increases the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a group of health conditions that can lead to heart ...

At three months of follow-up, patients hospitalized for a serious heart attack who were treated with the oral blood thinner ...

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 ...

Some drugs are known as nephrotoxic, which means that their effects can cause damage to the kidneys. Drugs such as certain ...

The signs of a dangerous blood clot can vary depending on its location. Some people may also not experience any symptoms.

High blood pressure, chills, and fatigue accompanied this young man's weight increase, as well as swelling.