New therapies for kidney disease could be developed more quickly by revising the definition of kidney disease progression used during clinical trials, experts say. If adopted, the new definition could ...

A new definition of chronic kidney disease labels over 1 in 8 adults and around half of people over 70 years of age as having the disease. Yet low rates of kidney failure suggest many of those ...

SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - Mark Politte has gone from starter on the LSU-Shreveport men's basketball team to stage five kidney failure in a year's time. "I was playing with kidney failure for like a ...

What Is Acute Kidney Failure? Acute kidney failure is when your kidneys stop working suddenly. Doctors sometimes call it acute renal failure. It can happen over just a few hours or days. Acute kidney ...

St. Louis, May 22, 2003 -- Mice lacking only one copy of the gene for CD2-associated protein (CD2AP) appear to be significantly more susceptible to kidney disease and failure than normal mice.

BRISTOL, England, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- British researchers say they have a new explanation for why people with diabetes seem prone to kidney disease. The study, published in Cell Metabolism, suggests ...

Type 2 diabetes medication Ozempic has been linked to a host of potential benefits outside of blood sugar management, including weight loss and helping to break addictions. Ozempic side effects tend ...