Diagnosed with high blood pressure in her early 40s, Anita Singhal has lived with hypertension for over two decades. Although ...

However, if you are getting up more often than usual it could be nocturia, or frequent nighttime urination, which could have ...

Ever woken up multiple times at night, groggy and frustrated, just to rush to the bathroom? You might blame your bladder, or ...

Kidney disease can cause facial swelling, itchiness, and blisters. Symptoms can depend on the stage of kidney disease. Uremic leontiasis ossea is a rare and severe complication of advanced kidney ...

Background: Mutations of the Wilms tumor suppressor-1 gene (WT1) cause a WT1-related nephropathy characterized by a triad of glomerulopathy, defective genital development, and Wilms or gonadal tumor.

PICKAWAY COUNTY — After two decades of marriage, one local couple has discovered they are a perfect match in more ways than one. Shaun and his wife, longtime Pickaway County residents, learned this ...

A pioneering technology has been developed that enables human kidney organoids to be produced in a scalable manner by allowing the organoids to be combined with ex vivo pig kidneys and then ...

Scientists move one step closer to "universal" donor organs with a successful kidney transplant in a brain-dead patient. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

A new study from the Medical University of Vienna reveals that high blood pressure alone—without the presence of diabetes—can cause structural changes in the kidneys, potentially leading to ...

Scientists discovered that a gut bacteria molecule called corisin can travel to the kidneys, triggering inflammation and scarring that lead to diabetic kidney fibrosis. By attaching to albumin in the ...