In Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, the Aga Khan University Hospital is positioning itself to solve two of Africa’s nagging ...

A tragic series of events led to a fatal case of transplant-related rabies earlier this year. Health officials announced Thursday that an organ recipient who underwent transplant surgery in Ohio died ...

TULSA, Okla. — A man who recently received a kidney transplant said finding out about missing information gave him a new lease on life. “I started kind of noticing significant changes in my body ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nearly two-thirds of patients on conservative dialysis recovered kidney function after hospital discharge.

CHICAGO — The current recommended benchmark for when to biopsy the kidney in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is arbitrary and results in missing the lupus nephritis (LN) cases that a ...

More than 92,000 patients in the United States are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, and according to the Health Resources & Services Administration, 13 people die each day while waiting ...

Mass General Brigham, based in Somerville, Mass., and eGenesis have received FDA approval for a clinical trial testing genetically engineered pig kidneys. The trial will evaluate the safety, ...

University of Utah Health has opened a new specialty clinic focused exclusively on treating patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD). PKD is a genetic condition that causes fluid-filled cysts to ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major health issue worldwide. Many patients end up requiring regular dialysis to avoid kidney failure and stay alive. Despite the severity of the condition, there are ...

Credit: Getty Images The number of patients diagnosed with CKD continues to rise each year. Those in the health care field need to work together to minimize the number of patients who go undetected ...

Liver cysts were found in over 80% of patients with ADPKD but were not associated with chronic kidney disease stage, Mayo classification, PKD1 or PKD2 genotype variant, liver enzyme levels, or quality ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Most normal people, when told they have kidney cancer, worry about ...