As a non-drinker and non-smoker, Shaliendra Tripathi was living a healthy lifestyle. There were only two clues kidneys were ...

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

Shares of DaVita (DVA) lost ground Monday after the kidney disease treatment company revealed it had suffered a ransomware ...

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 ...

A Diabetes, Heart Failure, and Kidney Disease Medication Is the First of Its Kind to Significantly Reduce Both Heart Attacks and Strokes Feb. 11, 2025 — Over 1,000 genes may serve as possible ...

Researchers have identified type 5 collagen as a key factor in kidney fibrosis, revealing its potential as a biomarker to predict chronic kidney disease progression. A repurposed anti-cancer drug, ...

University of Pittsburgh Medical School researchers walk us through multiple approaches they’ve tried in the past, are currently using or plan to use in the future, as well as the significant ...

Kidney failure represents the most severe stage of kidney disease, and without appropriate medical treatment, it can be life threatening. Anyone can experience kidney failure. However, some people ...

Although late-stage kidney cancer generated poor survival rates for over two decades, significant progress is being made in ...

What are the risk factors for kidney disease? My mother died from kidney failure a few years ago at age 75 but didn’t even know she had a problem until it was too late. Anyone who has diabetes, high ...

Employment among patients with kidney disease remains low even after dialysis or a transplant, with physical and social ...

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 ...