Scientists are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or having to take harsh drugs to suppress their immune system after a ...

Researchers at City of Hope and TGen (part of City of Hope) have identified a significant correlation between a tumor's ...

Officials in California criticized the federal response to a bio lab found in a Fresno County suburb after a similar setup was found at a home in Las Vegas over the weekend. The California lab was ...

A nephrology resident begins a weekend call shift managing dialysis patients and kidney failure cases. One patient misses two dialysis sessions and arrives severely short of breath with fluid overload ...

For many people with IgA nephropathy (IgAN), a condition in which immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies accumulate in the kidneys and trigger inflammation, kidney function stays stable for many years. For ...

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 ...

Experts say we’re in a golden age for treating chronic kidney disease, with new drugs like Ozempic yielding major results. Will dialysis and organ transplants become a thing of the past? A healthy ...

In the lab, it’s easier to grow simple balls of cells than complex asymmetrical structures with two distinct ends—like the one million filtering units, or nephrons, that make up a human kidney. But ...

A 74-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a 1-day history of severe chest and back pain. He has a history of hypertension and has run out of medication. He has no history of similar ...

This is the longest-lived set of developing kidney organoids derived from tissue stem cells The kidney developed over a half a year, enabling real-time observation, gene isolation for birth defects ...

Just a few weeks after donating a kidney to a stranger, Alexis Miller felt so exhilarated that she wanted to save another life. So when the Colorado resident saw a photo of a dog rescued from ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Joe DeMayo always knew his healthy years could end abruptly, ...