Approximately 100,000 patients in the USA are awaiting kidney transplantation. Waitlist mortality is 5–10% and ∼40% of transplant recipients will die or lose graft function within 10 years of ...

Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in kidney research. In a paper published in the journal Communications Biology, a team of researchers at Kyoto University led by Ramin Sadeghian present ...

Our kidneys may be small, but they play a major role in keeping our bodies healthy. These bean-shaped organs together ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that even slight abnormalities in kidney function—within the normal ...

The kidneys do a lot of work to ensure that the body is healthy, so this Kidney Health Month let’s take a look at just how our kidneys function. Emmanuelle Gilles, MD, a Board Certified Nephrologist ...

Current renal substitution therapy with hemodialysis or hemofiltration has been the only successful long-term ex vivo organ substitution therapy to date. Although this approach is life sustaining, it ...

Kidney function tests determine whether the kidneys are functioning typically or whether a person may need regular testing or further treatment. Many online companies design these types of tests for ...