Knowing the risks early can help you give your pets the care they need as they age.

They also make hormones that help to regulate blood pressure, keep bones strong, and make red blood cells. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is when the kidneys are permanently damaged. CKD can progress to ...

Amon Kipruto from Eldoret city sold his kidney to suspected organ dealers. Photo: Citizen TV. Source: Youtube Amon Kipruto has been forced to seek medical care after experiencing complications related ...

At just 5 years old, Lyndzi was diagnosed with kidney disease and her condition deteriorated fast. A couple days in the hospital turned into more than three months. Lyndzi said it was hard to ...

For Interwell Health, the hard part came after the ink dried on a three-way merger that formed the kidney care company. The company came together after Interwell, Cricket Health and Fresenius ...

The kidney failure risk equation (KRFE) helps predict a person’s risk of kidney failure. Doctors may use it to guide treatment decisions for people with mid to late stage chronic kidney disease ...

Except this time, instead of preparing a game plan for an opponent, he will make the trip to Ascension St. Vincent Hospital to undergo a life-saving kidney transplant. There are nerves ...

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Wayne Newell has a lot to celebrate these days. In a last-ditch effort to find a living kidney donor, he put up a billboard off of Interstate 77 last October. Beth Perryman ...

Leslie Fraser, who received a kidney transplant, says he has plans to pay it forward. "When I was on dialysis, I lost count of how many people I saw pass away. I started to think, ‘Well ...

Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration. By Gina Kolata Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

Kidney stones under 6 millimeters (one-fourth inch) in size will usually pass on their own, but certain home remedies can make them easier and less painful to pass. The most important thing is to ...