DEAR DR. ROACH: Outside of limiting your salt intake, avoiding potassium and phosphates, and hydrating properly, is there ...

What if a simple urine test could warn you about hidden kidney damage before symptoms even appear? It can—and that's exactly ...

Arterial stiffening is strongly linked to blood pressure — but not kidney function — in children with early chronic kidney ...

Currently, patients who have had a kidney transplant must take a cocktail of pills every day for the rest of their lives.

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

Your kidney function test results are a measure of how well your kidneys are working to filter your blood and remove excess water and waste from the body. For example, the estimated glomerular ...

The reality alum shared that she was diagnosed after multiple blood tests showed low kidney function ...

A new study offers hope that kidney transplant patients could one day have a monthly treatment instead of multiple pills every day. The new treatment also may reduce side effects and increase the ...

Loss of functional kidney tissue after nephrectomy for kidney cancer contributes to the onset of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

As concerns rise about the effects of tiny plastic particles on human health, Flinders University researchers have led new research on whether nanoplastics can accumulate or cause damage in ...

The American Heart Association just coined the term a few years ago.