A physical therapist was shocked to learn that for her, some of her crucial organs had an expiration date. With proactive ...

For patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a common genetic disorder that ravages the waste-removing organ with cysts, dialysis and transplantation are among the only treatments.

A team of geneticists from Rutgers University has made a discovery that could lead to new therapies for polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a common genetic ... specifically interact with polycystins ...

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a family ... Roughly one in every 1,000 people will develop some form of cystic kidney disease during their lifetime, and nearly 40,000 Oklahomans have a chronic ...

Scientists are exploring targeted drugs to prevent cyst formation and improve kidney function ... approach to understanding and treating the disease. These findings provide fresh insight into ...

A treatment for polycystic kidney disease(PKD), a leading cause of fatal ... that bends in response to fluid flow across the cell. During kidney development, cells destined to line a kidney ...