Doctors often use 'renal failure' and 'kidney failure' interchangeably, both signifying a critical loss of kidney function. While 'renal' stems from L ...

A randomized, controlled, nonblinded trial found that nutritional treatment with supportive education could help improve renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). A study published ...

More patients with AKI recovered kidney function after a conservative hemodialysis strategy compared with patients on ...

HOUSTON -- A conservative dialysis strategy improved rates of kidney function compared to conventional thrice-weekly dialysis in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) undergoing kidney replacement ...

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) do not appear to worsen kidney function compared with the histamine 2 receptor blocker ranitidine based on two measures, a large cohort study from Spain finds. In fact, ...

Each year, thousands of infants in the United States end up in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) with acute kidney injury (AKI), a condition in which the kidneys falter in performing the critical ...