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Lisa Wright, 60, donated her organ to her 68-year-old friend Valerie Jack after finding out she had kidney disease.

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Chronic Kidney Disease is a silent killer that progresses gradually, often going unnoticed until the late stages. While ...

Edinburgh resident Lisa Wright, 60, donated her kidney to her friend and fellow bandmate, 68-year-old Valerie Jack who was undergoing dialysis. She urges others to consider donating to those in need.

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 doctor may use a needle biopsy to remove a sample of tissue ... for kidney cancer This therapy uses drugs or other substances to find and target cancer cells with less toxicity to normal ...

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Thurman M. Wheeler, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Nature ...

These tests can be used to diagnose kidney injury and monitor disease progression. People with kidney disease also may need to have blood tests and other evaluations to assess how well treatments are ...