Discover the five major risk factors for kidney disease, from daily habits to genetic predisposition, and learn the warning ...

Learn how failing kidneys cause dangerous fluid buildup, blood cell reduction, heart-threatening electrolyte imbalances, and ...

Kidney cancer-- also called renal cell cancer-- is a disease in which kidney cells become ... A doctor may use a needle biopsy to remove a sample of tissue, which is then examined under a ...

People with kidney disease often report feeling unusually cold, even in warm environments. This is linked to anaemia, which reduces oxygen delivery to tissues, leading to a constant sensation of ...

A person’s precious organ donation came with an unexpected visitor. In a new paper out this month, scientists have documented ...

A new study identifies GPR107 as a key protein protecting against diabetic nephropathy (DN), a major cause of kidney failure. Researchers found that GPR107 regulates collagen type IV (COL4) balance in ...

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), a genetic disorder, shares overlapping features with chronic kidney disease, including ...

First author Hongbo Liu, a former postdoctoral fellow in the division of Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension at Penn, told ...

Thurman M. Wheeler, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Nature Communications, "Analysis of human urinary extracellular ...