Maintaining the health of your kidneys is crucial for ensuring a well-functioning body. These essential organs perform the vital task of filtering waste products, excess water and other impurities ...

Smoking isn't just bad for your lungs and heart; it's a direct assault on your kidneys.

Winter dehydration can quietly harm kidney health. A doctor explains how low water intake and uncontrolled blood pressure ...

Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in kidney research. In a paper published in the journal Communications Biology, a team of researchers at Kyoto University led by Ramin Sadeghian present ...

The rise in kidney disease highlights the importance of managing kidney health. One thing that can help lower the risk of ...

Doctors explain why vitamin D supplements may not work properly if your kidneys are unhealthy, and how kidney function ...

Recently, my primary care physician spotted some abnormal numbers related to my kidney function. He suspects that this is related to lisinopril. As a result, he decreased my daily dosage to just 10 mg ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 83-year-old white male. I am overweight and have high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes. I recently have been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney failure. I’m told that I have three ...

That vitamin bottle on your kitchen counter promising improved energy, stronger immunity, or enhanced performance might hide an uncomfortable truth – many popular supplements can damage your kidneys ...

Gene-edited pig kidneys function well after human patient transplant By Michael Irving August 16, 2023 In a new study, scientists have successfully transplanted genetically-modified pig kidneys into a ...

The use of SGLT2 inhibitors, especially dapagliflozin, can lower adiposopathy parameters in patients with CKD, regardless of ...

The Kidney Disease Symptom Score (KDSS) has temporal stability for patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney ...