The human kidney filters about a cup of blood every minute, removing waste, excess fluid, and toxins from it, while also ...

Lupus affects different people in different ways. Many people with lupus have problems with their kidneys. How does lupus affect the kidneys? Your kidneys filter waste and extra water out of your ...

Chronic kidney disease, already a problem affecting millions of Americans, is only expected to become more prevalent as the country ages. For those with end-stage disease, a transplant is the ideal ...

After more than 10 years of research, scientists are getting closer to solving one of the biggest issues in kidney transplants: blood type compatibility.

A new method for early detection of chronic kidney disease, which affects an estimated 9% of the world's population, has been shown to have potential to service rural and remote patients and ...

Three children who have undergone kidney transplants in California will likely be spared from ever having to take anti-rejection medication, because of an innovative technique that eliminates the need ...

Scientists have taken a decisive step toward ending one of transplant medicine’s most stubborn bottlenecks: the need to match donor organs to a recipient’s blood type. By chemically reengineering a ...

AdventHealth Celebration (FL.) Urology Performs Non-Invasive Histotripsy in Patient with Primary Solid Renal Tumor MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HistoSonics, Inc., (www.histosonics.com), developer of ...

Cancer fighting T-cells, the immune system's primary enforcers, are scarce in the rare kidney cancer called chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (ChRCC) and those that are present are indifferent to the ...