Cardiovascular disease and kidney disease are two of the most urgent issues in global public health. In the United States ...

It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig organ ... help save her mother’s life in 1999 but later developed kidney failure after her remaining kidney was damaged by preeclampsia ...

Kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease ... risk could eventually help address the severe shortage of human donor organs. Improved dialysis technologies continue emerging, with ...

Depending on more exact details of your kidney function (especially whether you are losing protein in your urine), ...

The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human ...

As the years and months pass by, my health, due to my kidney failure, has further deteriorated. I fear that I will not ...

Wendy Rappaport has filed a lawsuit alleging that her healthy kidney was removed instead of her spleen, leaving her with ...

Deb's team is now working to establish a blood test to measure Col5a1 levels in human patients with chronic kidney disease to establish a clinical threshold for identifying at-risk individuals.

People often think that they will be perfectly fine with just one kidney. But there are long-term health consequences, and ...

Older adults are more likely to get CKD because their kidneys have been working for many years. Also, other common problems ...

linking them to kidney disease in humans through a common gene. Analysis of the evolutionary roots of the human ability to hear led the team to closely examine the mechanosensory hair cells found ...

Surgeons in southern California successfully completed the world's first-ever human bladder transplant on 41-year-old Oscar ...