On World Kidney Cancer Day 2025, experts highlight everyday habits that increase kidney cancer risk, including smoking, excessive painkiller use, unhealthy diet, poor hydration, sedentary ...

Chen also says that air pollution harms blood vessels, including the tiny ones in the kidneys, which can reduce blood flow ...

Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy, or RAPN, is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that helps remove a tumour from the ...

The human kidney maintains homeostasis through a complex network of up to a million nephrons. Here the authors construct a 3D neuro-nephron connectivity map of human kidneys, which reveals neuro ...

Here's what kidney stones are, what causes them and how you can expect to have them treated if they affect you or someone you ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed a novel mouse model that allows them to induce dysfunction in only ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that Parkinson’s disease may begin in the kidneys, where a toxic protein builds up and ...

Kidney stones are excruciatingly miserable, causing intense, unrelenting pain — often described as worse than childbirth.

Investigators studied whether changes in renal hyperfiltration status affects patient outcomes using a Korean population cohort of more than 4.5 million patients.

Chlorothiazide acts to inhibit renal tubular reabsorption of electrolytes. Experimental data are presented which indicate that, under various conditions, anion reabsorption is depressed unselectively ...

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