Kidneys work all day quietly. When kidneys struggle, toxins stay longer in the body and affect overall health. As per a ...

As the Medical Director of the new Mount Sinai Kidney Center that opened this week, Dr. Vijay Lapsia is a nephrologist who treats the full range of kidney disease. His program oversees dialysis for ...

Discover how a traditional Chinese herbal mix showed better results in treating a common kidney disease compared to commonly ...

Kidney disease affects millions of Americans, often developing silently until significant damage occurs. These bean-shaped organs perform essential functions beyond filtering waste—they regulate blood ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common among older adults but frequently goes undetected until it is advanced. Several biological, clinical and system-level factors conspire to keep early kidney ...

For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...

Kidney disease often progresses silently, causing irreversible damage before symptoms appear. Simple tests like blood ...

Diabetic kidney disease affects a growing proportion of people with diabetes and remains the leading cause of end-stage renal ...

After seeing an implantable heart prototype, Nephrodite's co-founders wondered whether an implantable kidney was feasible.

The natural antibodies (blood proteins) most people have would destroy an organ from someone of a different blood type, so transplant patients historically had to have a compatible blood type donor.

A type of two-dimensional layered material has emerged as a candidate to assist in replacing the body's waste filtration system in wearable kidneys. For more than 3 million people around the world, ...