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

Four distinct factors—malnutrition, inflammation, acidosis, and hyperkalemia—were recently assessed in more than 1500 patients with community-acquired AKI. Among these patients with mild-to-moderate ...

Food & Drug Experts Say New Kidney Cell Therapy Could Transform Chronic Disease Treatment ...

Weaning patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) from dialysis while they are still hospitalized may save them from remaining on the treatment for the rest of their lives, according to a new study led ...

Acute kidney injury, or AKI, is a dangerous condition that affects many people in hospitals, especially those in intensive ...

Kidney failure has a significant impact on public health; about 750,000 Americans and 2 million people around the world are affected every year. People can be treated with dialysis or a transplant, ...

CCL5 protects podocytes, the kidney’s essential filtration cells, but simultaneously drives harmful inflammation. Ultimately, these damaging effects surpass its protective role, leading to progressive ...

Recently, my primary care physician spotted some abnormal numbers related to my kidney function. He suspects that this is ...

A Long Island teenager who has battled kidney disease since birth is now urgently searching for a living kidney donor as his ...