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

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

Finding a match for an organ donation can be difficult, but that wasn’t the case for Isabelle ‘Izzy’ Warrington as her own ...

which can eventually progress to kidney failure. Kidneys that have failed stop producing urine, which prevents the body from eliminating fluids. This causes electrolytes like potassium and ...

Regulus Therapeutics' Phase 1b study shows farabursen 300 mg slowed kidney volume growth in ADPKD patients with a favorable ...

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 ...

Clinicians should continue to monitor UACR or UPCR in at-risk children. During periods of rapid growth such as puberty, children with low GFR may show rapid decline in kidney function. Puberty is a ...

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

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

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

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.