The death of Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, was caused by an ...

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

Traditionally, kidney health has been monitored by measuring blood creatinine levels, which indicate muscle breakdown. High ...

Exposure to chemicals called PFAS during young adulthood has been linked to yet another serious health problem – reduced ...

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found ...

A dietary intervention restored kidney function in animal studies and in a pilot study of patients with chronic kidney ...

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

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

Ozempic (semaglutide) may impact kidney health in certain people, especially those with diabetes. Learn more about what the ...

Although finerenone has kidney protective effects in patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, it does not appear to slow kidney function decline in patients with heart failure with ...

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 ...