Our bodies have several vital organs that quietly toil away to keep us functioning properly. Among these are the kidneys, two fist-sized organs that sit on either side of the spine below the ribs. The ...

Integrating nephrology and cardiology care for patients with kidney and cardiovascular (CV) risks can be challenging but is ...

The National Kidney Foundation is the largest, most comprehensive, and long-standing patient-centric organization dedicated to the awareness, prevention and treatment of kidney disease in the U.S.

Weaning patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) from dialysis while they are still hospitalized may save them from remaining ...

A large two-cohort analysis published in BMC Nephrology has found that patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney ...

In patients with symptomatic multiple myeloma, renal impairment leading to acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication ...

The drug finerenone has a positive effect on patients with type 1 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. The drug reduces the amount of proteins excreted in the urine of these patients. This reduction ...

Why thousands of patients are now moving up on the waitlist. Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, ...

Unvaccinated patients were 5.54 times more likely to die in the hospital. Patients vaccinated against COVID-19 who caught the virus -- and were hospitalized with reduced kidney function -- had better ...