For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the U.S., chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people who have it are formally diagnosed. The consequences of advanced chronic ...

At 35, Kay Torcuator is still playing the waiting game. Eleven years ago she was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease, and ...

The use of technicians to assist in delivering dialysis to the end-stage kidney disease population has been a recognized role ...

Anyone who has diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems or has a family history of the disease is at increased risk for ...

Dr. Emmanuel Ssekasanvu, a top nephrologist or specialist in Kidney care in Uganda. Ask him about Kidney care either at a ...

In this video, Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, a professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses the ways AI is currently being used in chronic kidney disease care.

Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist ...

The progression to kidney failure typically happens gradually, often as the end result of chronic kidney disease (CKD ... and maintaining comfort without dialysis or transplantation.

Michael Bromberg, MD, PhD, talks with Physician’s Weekly about renal disease in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal ...

In Virginia, health statistics show more than 20,000 people depend on dialysis and just a few thousand fewer have had kidney ...

The kidney is an organ that plays an important role in maintaining the balance of our body. It functions to filter out waste ...

CKD is responsible for chronic inflammation and oxidative stress and results in the build-up of uremic toxins, which ...