With kidney disease on the rise worldwide, we asked the nation's top specialists to share the early signs of the condition.

Winter's chill poses a hidden threat to kidney health, increasing the risk of dehydration, reduced blood flow and infections ...

Kidney disease often progresses silently, causing irreversible damage before symptoms appear. Simple tests like blood ...

As the Medical Director of the new Mount Sinai Kidney Center that opened this week, Dr. Vijay Lapsia is a nephrologist who treats the full range of kidney disease. His program oversees dialysis for ...

Kidney disease affects millions of Americans, often developing silently until significant damage occurs. These bean-shaped organs perform essential functions beyond filtering waste—they regulate blood ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common among older adults but frequently goes undetected until it is advanced. Several biological, clinical and system-level factors conspire to keep early kidney ...

Human kidneys are an intricate network of tubes that process roughly 190 quarts of blood every day. Lining these tubes are epithelial cells that transport blood through the kidneys and circulate it ...

One of the most devastating side effects of diabetes is kidney failure, and one of the earliest signs of kidney damage is a disruption of the organ’s filtering capacity. Diabetes patients who develop ...

A type of two-dimensional layered material has emerged as a candidate to assist in replacing the body's waste filtration system in wearable kidneys. For more than 3 million people around the world, ...

The natural antibodies (blood proteins) most people have would destroy an organ from someone of a different blood type, so transplant patients historically had to have a compatible blood type donor.

For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...