Proper function of the kidney is critical for concentrating urine, regulating blood pressure, and for the tight control of electrolyte levels in the blood. The kidney achieves these important ...

Recently, my primary care physician spotted some abnormal numbers related to my kidney function. He suspects that this is ...

The kidney protection is complicated because ACE inhibitors always increase the creatinine level, making it look like they hurt the kidney. Deep inside the kidney, blood flow to the nephron (the ...

For most children with renal masses, the standard of care has long been to remove the entire affected kidney- which is the protocol for Wilms tumor, the most common kidney cancer in children. But is ...

In videos created by the Hughes Lab to visualize the process, adjacent nephrons form one after the other, as if they were following a beat. “It’s still a hypothesis,” adds Hughes, “but we think that ...

Subclinical structural features in kidneys from living donors that can only be seen with a microscope modestly contribute to predicting the long-term success of a transplant, new research suggests. In ...