Blocking fatty ceramides could stop acute kidney injury—and possibly revolutionize mitochondrial disease treatment.

These findings underscore the limitations of relying on proteinuria alone to assess LN treatment success and demonstrate the clinical utility of biomarker-guided risk stratification.

Kidney stone pain can radiate from the back or side to the lower abdomen or groin, whereas menstrual cramps cause discomfort ...

All in all, about 8% of men received scrotal surgery following kidney donation during the study period, compared to 0.2% of ...

The mystery deepens when we discover that ancient Greek temples, built thousands of miles away and centuries later, encoded the same geodetic principles—their measurements directly derived from the ...

A mismatch between two common tests for kidney function may indicate a higher risk for kidney failure, heart disease, and death, a new study shows.

In FSGS, podocytes are damaged, like a net with torn holes, allowing protein to leak into the urine, creating a harmful ...

Kidney stones are caused when there is an excess of salts and minerals in the urine. They turn into little hard stones and ...

Abstract: Kidney stones, or renal calculi, affect approximately 10% of the global population and can lead to severe complications such as urinary obstruction and kidney failure. We propose a two-stage ...

Engineers and clinicians have found that adding light-absorbing nanoparticles to surgical saline can make laser kidney stone removal up to seven times more efficient, without raising heat risks or ...

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has announced the launch of the latest global system for kidney and ureter stone fragmentation, using extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy technology at the Urology ...