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

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

Changes in urine appearance—including persistent foaminess, unusual color, or cloudiness—might indicate protein or other ...

A woman who donated her kidney to her friend has encouraged more Scots to consider giving their organs away. Lisa Wright, a ...

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

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 ...

Intrinsic problems happen within the kidney itself. There can be damage to the glomerulus, renal tubules or the tissue containing the nephrons. Diseases such as lupus erythematosus, streptococcal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kidney cancer describes a malignancy that ... The chance of adjacent tissue damage is not as significant in cryoablation compared to partial or complete nephrectomy. Most patients can return ...