For years, Nichole Jefferson battled a series of health problems as she juggled a stressful job in the tech industry while raising her daughter. Then, in 2003, she wasn’t feeling well and went to a ...

An expert task force on Thursday released a new and much-anticipated approach for diagnosing kidney function, saying there is no need for controversial algorithms that consider race in the assessment ...

Heart failure patients treated with finerenone (Kerendia; Bayer AG) are more likely to have an early decline in kidney function than those treated with placebo, but the decline should not be construed ...

AGE is not just a number in some cases. As the body ages, so do the organs and this applies to the kidneys as well.

New research being presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), held online this year, suggests that among COVID-19 patients ...

A novel pill that blocks the hormone aldosterone shows promise for lowering blood pressure and potentially delaying the ...

In most transplant centers, the kidneys of very young deceased donors are transplanted together into one patient. According to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the ...

Dallas, TX - Pravastatin slows the rate of kidney-function loss in patients with or at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), although its effect is modest and most pronounced in those with ...