Kidneys work all day quietly. When kidneys struggle, toxins stay longer in the body and affect overall health. As per a ...

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

Winter's chill poses a hidden threat to kidney health, increasing the risk of dehydration, reduced blood flow and infections ...

As the Medical Director of the new Mount Sinai Kidney Center that opened this week, Dr. Vijay Lapsia is a nephrologist who treats the full range of kidney disease. His program oversees dialysis for ...

Kidney disease affects millions of Americans, often developing silently until significant damage occurs. These bean-shaped organs perform essential functions beyond filtering waste—they regulate blood ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common among older adults but frequently goes undetected until it is advanced. Several biological, clinical and system-level factors conspire to keep early kidney ...

For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...

Human kidneys are an intricate network of tubes that process roughly 190 quarts of blood every day. Lining these tubes are epithelial cells that transport blood through the kidneys and circulate it ...

The natural antibodies (blood proteins) most people have would destroy an organ from someone of a different blood type, so transplant patients historically had to have a compatible blood type donor.

A type of two-dimensional layered material has emerged as a candidate to assist in replacing the body's waste filtration system in wearable kidneys. For more than 3 million people around the world, ...