Your kidneys are crucial in maintaining health by filtering waste, balancing body fluids, and regulating blood pressure.

A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that over 1 in 7 US adults has chronic kidney disease. Your ...

Raad B. Chowdhury, MD, and Shruti Gupta, MD, MPH, are onconephrologists in the Division of Nephrology at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). They are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

While doctors determined he broke his right clavicle, they wanted to do a follow-up MRI to understand why. The reason felt startling — O’Keefe had Stage 4 kidney cancer that had spread to his ...

Keith Murphy donated a kidney in December; just weeks later, his wife received the lifesaving donation she needed.

The kidney dialysis firm doesn’t have an estimate for how long disruption from the attack will last, though DaVita stressed ...

Abstracts featured at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting highlighted the renoprotective benefits of SGLT2 inhibitors in heart failure and diabetic kidney disease while emphasizing ...

In Nigeria, some of our favourite meals can worsen high blood pressure if we’re not careful. If you or a loved one is managing hypertension, here are 5 foods to avoid and the healthier alternatives ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a disappointment in the ...