For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the U.S., chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people ...

Kidney Health New Zealand says a simple, $12 test could prevent hundreds of people languishing on waitlists for a kidney ...

A new urine-based biomarker test could cut in half the need for surveillance imaging to detect recurrence of the most common ...

The creatinine blood test helps doctors diagnose kidney disease. A poorly functioning kidney cannot filter creatinine as well as it usually does, which causes levels in the blood to rise.

High blood pressure typically doesn't present any noticeable symptoms on its own, until it leads to severe health problems such as heart disease, stroke and kidney disease. These checks can be ...

More than 1 in 7 adults are estimated to have chronic kidney disease, which is a progressive decrease in kidney function. As many as 9 in 10 of them don’t know they have it.

Crossmatch tests of the prospective kidney-transplant donor's lymphocytes with the serum of the prospective recipient in 225 transplants showed that eight of 195 with negative crossmatch failed to ...

THE Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) recently hosted a National Kidney Month exhibition, aimed at raising ...

A simple urine test could accurately show the recurrence of kidney cancer at an early stage, potentially sparing patients invasive scans and enabling faster access to treatment, new research has shown ...