ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the American Kidney Fund (AKF) launched its newest educational campaign, “Answers Unlocked,” to spread awareness of the need and benefits of ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a complex syndrome, which results in a rapid loss of kidney function, affecting 1 in 5 patients (1) during hospitalization. Four units at the University Hospital ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report the successful and safe transplantation of a kidney from a donor who died of complications from COVID-19. The case, which involved careful collection and ...

Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) was found to help prospective parents to prevent passing on disease-causing mutations to their children, said researchers. Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) ...

Health of the kidneys should be one of the major priorities when we look at our overall health. This is because of number of conditions arising from the kidneys that affect different organs ...

Disagreement between creatinine and cystatin C kidney tests signals a much higher risk of serious disease and death, ...

Interdepartmental testing of the kidney function biomarker penKid in routine care at Heidelberg University Hospital and the Heidelberg Kidney Center - Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a complex syndrome, ...

Dec. 27 (UPI) --About 10 percent of all cases of chronic kidney disease come from genetic causes, a new study says. The research, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, ...