The kidneys sometimes produce hard mineral deposits known as kidney stones, which trigger severe pain, and can result in additional health complications. The management of kidney stone risk heavily ...

With a late-stage win in hand, Sweden’s Hansa Biopharma is one step closer to bringing its kidney transplant drug to the U.S. Thursday, the company reported positive top-line results from a U.S. phase ...

FAPI PET/CT may be the better imaging tool to predict renal response to lupus nephritis induction therapy. For noninvasively predicting renal response to lupus nephritis induction therapy, the ...

As a dietitian, I spend a lot of time talking about how food impacts our bodies, from our hearts to our guts. But one pair of organs often gets overlooked until there’s a problem: our kidneys. These ...

Scientists have uncovered how lymphatic vessels—the kidney's "plumbing system"—undergo dramatic changes during chronic transplant rejection, becoming structurally disorganized and spreading to unusual ...

In a landmark move, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given biotech company eGenesis the go-ahead to conduct a broader human trial in pig-to-human kidney transplants, marking a significant ...

Nine out of 10 people with chronic kidney disease only find out when it progresses to later stages. Here’s what we know about its risk factors—and why there's new reason to hope for more effective ...

A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animal organs really might save human lives. The ...

QUEST TO IDENTIFY RHEA RASMUSSEN. WE HAVE MORE BREAKING NEWS NOW THAT WE ARE FOLLOWING THIS. NOON. A SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE MAN HAS NOW RECEIVED A SUCCESSFUL KIDNEY TRANSPLANT. THE GRANITE STATERS ARE ...

In this Ask The Professor Q&A, David St-Jules, a registered dietitian and assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, and Dr. John Westhoff, associate professor in the School of Medicine and ...

Scientists continue to make progress with research on how well pig organs might perform in humans, and now they’re ready for the next step: larger-scale clinical trials. eGenesis, one of the biotech ...

A 16-µg dose of lubiprostone, a medication used in the management of constipation, improved or preserved estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), ...