For decades, kidney stones have been treated as inert pebbles that simply precipitate out of urine, a plumbing problem inside ...

Currently, patients who have had a kidney transplant must take a cocktail of pills every day for the rest of their lives.

Kidney disease often creeps in silently, and many patients aren’t diagnosed until major damage is already done. New research shows that even “normal” kidney test results can signal danger if they’re ...

What if a simple urine test could warn you about hidden kidney damage before symptoms even appear? It can-and that's exactly ...

Diabetic nephropathy is kidney damage caused by diabetes that often progresses slowly. Many people notice few or no symptoms until later stages. Early symptoms can begin in stage 2, when the ...

Recovering from acute kidney damage isn't just about growing kidney cells—it also requires kidney tissue to stiffen ...

A research team led by Prof. Dr. Christian Hinze, senior physician at the MHH Clinic for Kidney and Hypertension Diseases at ...

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 ...

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed a kidney transplant on an awake patient, marking a first for the Chicago-based healthcare system. The patient, 28-year-old John Nicholas of Chicago, felt no ...

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, ...

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap. Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital ...