We’re often told to cut back on salt – but what’s the real reason, especially when it comes to kidney health? Sodium, the main ingredient in salt, plays a crucial role in keeping our bodies ...

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 ...

Lipid profiling, blood pressure monitoring, and kidney damage assessments are also critical. In obese patients, additional tests, such as transaminases and color Doppler ultrasound of the supra-aortic ...

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 ...

A Venezuelan immigrant who was detained by ICE in Illinois last month was temporarily released from custody to save his ailing brother in need of a kidney transplant. José Gregorio González ...

According to his attorney, Peter Meinecke, José Gregorio González has been granted supervised release for one year to care for his dying sibling and possibly donate a kidney to him. "ICE has ...

Today, a brief rundown of news involving Sarepta Therapeutics, Novartis and Allakos, as well as updates from CSL Behring and Roche that you may have missed.

Imaging living cells in 3D Now, a team of scientists from TU Delft, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Caltech managed to image specifically labelled cells in 3D with ultrasound. For ...

Facing heart, kidney and liver failure in late 2024, the Hollis resident’s only hope was a rare and highly unusual triple transplant. The odds were against him. "But it happened. Miracles exist ...

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.