Sofia Tsanou and Michaela Smith founded a charity and support group for kidney patients.

A trio of major studies found that finerenone may protect the kidneys and heart in far more people than previously thought. The drug significantly slowed kidney disease progression and reduced the ...

A series of major studies has shown that finerenone preserves kidney function, reduces cardiovascular risk, and improves survival across a much broader range of patients with chronic kidney disease ...

Dave Lackner remembered being on vacation in Stone Harbor, N.J., in 2007 when the phone call came in. “They had found a kidney for my dad,” Lackner, of Mt. Lebanon, said of that call nearly 20 years ...

A pioneering clinical trial has successfully enabled two patients with end-stage kidney disease to receive previously improbable kidney transplants. These individuals were considered among the most ...

Scientists have discovered an answer to the longstanding mystery of why more than half of patients with chronic kidney disease ultimately die of cardiovascular problems: Their kidneys produce a ...

Muscle wasting in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common yet underrecognized complication, tightly intertwined with ...

By the time Ray learned he had chronic kidney disease, he was 20 years old and weeks away from graduating from college. He ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infection rates stayed within International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis guideline thresholds during the ...

Healthcare professionals in Western Europe overwhelmingly believed exercise as beneficial for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet most kidney units lacked dedicated exercise programmes, ...

New research presented at the 63 rd ERA Congress suggests that a widely used class of blood pressure medications may be associated with poorer kidney outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D), ...