Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects more than 700 million people worldwide and is caused by genetic and environmental ...

People with Type 2 diabetes should be concerned with their kidney function, but current testing is woefully insufficient. A ...

Kidney failure has a significant impact on public health; about 750,000 Americans and 2 million people around the world are affected every year. People can be treated with dialysis or a transplant, ...

This randomized trial recently published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) found that a 12- month program of in-center aerobic and resistance exercise program improved physical ...

A medical milestone at Massachusetts General Hospital. For the first time, doctors have transplanted a genetically-modified big kidney into a living person. Doctors said the 62-year-old patient is ...

No sooner had we covered news of a University of Alabama team having success with genetically edited pig kidneys transplanted into a human patient functioning for a week, we learnt that another team ...