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The health care system at large has sometimes embraced false beliefs about racial differences in people’s bodies — and the way we assess kidney health and kidney donor eligibility are prime ...

I would never have even attempted to care for her before. It’s just like a whole turnaround. “If I hadn’t been the one getting a kidney, I would definitely have wanted to donate. I would donate in a ...

“My husband’s kidney failure happened pretty fast, because his general practitioner had told us his numbers were up and that down the road he would probably be looking at dialysis. But we were ...

It is important to take care of these organs, especially in the winter months, when one becomes susceptible to seasonal illnesses and/or is already suffering from a kidney disease. The theme of ...

Opens in a new tab or window Using a personalized algorithm to identify primary care patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), type 2 diabetes, and hypertension (the kidney-dysfunction triad ...

Richard Slayman made history on March 16 by becoming the first living person to receive a genetically edited pig kidney. This week, the 62-year-old Massachusetts resident reached another milestone ...

The NHS has funded the Prepare for Kidney Care study, which aims to help older people with kidney disease make the right decision for them when their kidney function is getting very low. The study has ...

Just after 8 p.m. on Saturday, Officers responded to a shooting in Baltimore's Care neighborhood. Upon arrival, they found a 60-year-old man on North Chester Street suffering from a gunshot wound ...

(By Dr Ganesh Srinivas Prasad P, Consultant: Nephrology and Transplant Physician, Narayana Health City, Bangalore) Kidney transplant brings remarkable transformation to patients' lives, yet ...

As World Kidney Day, March 14 this year or every second Thursday of March each year, approaches, National Renal Care has raised concerns ... People with hypertension made up 60 to 65% of those ...