Most people only ever see the organ in cross-section, through textbooks or by dissecting animal kidneys in high school ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) impairs the kidneys’ ability to filter excess potassium, which may lead to high potassium levels in the blood. Your kidneys filter waste from your blood. Conditions ...

But having too much cholesterol can lead to health problems. Some of the first clues linking high cholesterol to kidney disease came from a study called the Physicians’ Health Study. In it ...

Huang: Ultrasonography performed at the first hospital reportedly revealed a complicated cyst, measuring 24 mm in diameter, in the upper pole of the left kidney ... lesions with high T2 signal ...

“Patients with high blood pressure, the two big problems that they get is heart disease and kidney disease,” said lead study investigator Dr. Donald Wesson, professor in the department of ...

Legendary singer Tina Turner, who died this week at the age of 83 after a long illness, has written about her history of high blood pressure and kidney disease, leading to a kidney transplant.

Thirty years ago, kidney stones were considered a disease of the middle-aged white man. Now doctors are increasingly seeing a different kind of patient suffering from the extremely painful ...