The European Kidney Function Consortium equation for eGFR can now use cystatin C as well as serum creatinine; this combination produces the most accurate kidney function estimate, researchers say.

Chi-yuan Hsu, UCSF nephrologist Cystatin C is a less-widely used test for kidney function. The new study showed that when cystatin C test results were substituted for creatinine test results, race ...

Cancer is viewed as a multistep process whereby a normal cell is transformed into a cancer cell through the acquisition of mutations. We reduce the complexities of cancer progression to a simple set ...