Disagreement between creatinine and cystatin C kidney tests signals a much higher risk of serious disease and death, suggesting both measures should be used together. A new study suggests that when ...

Subtle abnormalities in kidney function—even within the range considered normal—may help identify people at risk of ...

Proteomics International Laboratories Ltd (ASX: PIQ) has announced the publication of a peer-reviewed Australian clinical utility study demonstrating that the PromarkerD blood test provides actionable ...

Chandrapur: Fresh medical evidence has added a disturbing twist to the probe into multi-state kidney trafficking linked to Cambodia with investigators confirming that one kidney each of both the prime ...

A lifestyle change can still turn around kidney damage, if detected early, a health expert on diabetes said on Wednesday.

I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that even slight abnormalities in kidney function—within the normal ...

Your kidneys are among the most remarkable organs that work tirelessly, filtering waste and excess fluid from your blood all the time. Yet chronic kidney disease is often known as a 'silent killer' ...

Experts say gait speed, grip strength, balance, and endurance are some of the strongest predictors of long-term independence. Here’s how to check them yourself—and what the results mean. Balancing on ...

Regularly testing your kidney function can help you catch early kidney disease. You can manage diabetes and high blood pressure to prevent kidney disease from progressing. Lifestyle changes, like ...

Texas A&M researchers found that in an aggressive kidney cancer, RNA builds “droplet hubs” that activate tumor genes. By creating a molecular switch to dissolve these hubs, they stopped cancer growth ...

Dialysis is a procedure that helps filter and clean your blood when your kidneys are unable to do so effectively. There are two types of dialysis. Hemodialysis involves the use of a dialysis machine ...