Regularly testing your kidney function can help you catch early kidney disease. You can manage diabetes and high blood pressure to prevent kidney disease from progressing. Lifestyle changes, like ...

The kidneys work around the clock to filter waste from the blood, regulate fluid balance, and maintain overall health. When early damage occurs, these vital organs can often heal and restore function ...

When you have chronic kidney disease, a lower protein diet with plenty of plant-based proteins can help preserve kidney function. If you live with chronic kidney disease (CKD), you may need to make ...

Around one in seven adults in the United States have chronic kidney disease (CKD), a condition in which the kidneys become ...

Our kidneys, vital for filtering waste and maintaining fluid balance, often go unnoticed until problems arise, particularly as we age. Like many bodily functions, kidney performance can naturally ...

These solid masses that form in the kidneys can grow big enough to cause severe pain and even infection as they pass into the urinary tract. Here are some tips from doctors on preventing stones from ...

How does someone go from full kidney function to complete kidney failure overnight? That’s the devastating reality Zeev was ...

In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement forced the United States to reckon with systemic racism and its causes and manifestations. Driven partially by the disproportionate toll that the COVID-19 ...

Why thousands of patients are now moving up on the waitlist. Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, ...