She would have been waiting even longer had it not been for a shift, in 2021, in the way that physicians calculate kidney function for Black patients like her. In a panel Wednesday at the STAT ...

Women/AFAB: 0.6 to 1.1 milligrams/deciliter (53 to 97.2 micromoles/liter) Men/AMAB: 0.7 to 1.3 milligrams/deciliter (61.9 to 114.9 micromoles/liter) A creatinine test is a kidney function test ...

One aspect of dehydration which has received much less attention than it deserves is the function of the kidney. Very little urine is formed, and it might have been anticipated that there would ...

Researchers from both Johns Hopkins Medicine and Yale University collaborated on the development and application of a diagnostic model to detect acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) in patients, which c ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Yale University have collaborated on the development and application of a ...

A kidney patient who was rejected for personal independence payment (PIP) even though a dialysis machine was keeping him ...

Independent advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted against recommending Lexicon Pharmaceuticals' ...

Kidney stones are hard objects made from chemicals in your pee. They may be as tiny as a grain of salt or as big as a corn kernel. The stones can be brown or yellow, smooth or rough. They're a ...

They found that increased PFAS exposure was associated with worse kidney function four years later, and that changes in the gut microbiome and related metabolites explained up to 50% of that ...

A fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) restored kidney function in a rodent model and promoted renoprotection in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) by reducing proteinuria and improving ...