If you’ve ever had a kidney stone, you know how painful and debilitating it can be. A sharp, stabbing pain in your lower abdomen. A dull ache spreading from your lower back to your groin. Intense ...

Have you had your water today? Well, you should, because your kidneys need it. About 10% of people will get kidney stones at some point in their lives. More than half a million people every year are ...

Mitochondria in renal tubular cells are dynamic organelles that continually undergo fission and fusion to adapt to fluctuating energy demands and to maintain quality control. Disruption of these ...

A person can lose more than half their kidney function without feeling a thing. No pain, no obvious warning, no reason to ...

An old adage physicians are taught is that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think of “horses,” not “zebras.” Instead of an unusual explanation for the symptoms, it’s preferable to consider more ...

Our understanding of how biological sex shapes the pathophysiology of the kidney has expanded markedly. Men and women differ in the prevalence, progression and outcome of many renal conditions.

Affecting up to 844 million people worldwide, chronic kidney disease often develops silently, with symptoms appearing only ...

AKI — Increase in serum creatinine ≥0.3 mg/dl within 48 hr or increase ≥1.5 times baseline level Increase in serum creatinine ≥0.3 mg/dl within 48 hr or increase ≥1.5 times baseline level, which is ...

Research shows semaglutide — commonly sold as Ozempic or Wegovy — can improve kidney function and survival rates for people ...

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder marked by the growth of many fluid-filled sacs (cysts) in your kidneys. These cysts can grow to replace normal kidney tissue over time, leading to ...

A new meta-analysis highlights that prevalent nature of chronic kidney disease globally. Here is how it is spreading at a ...