Cancer-fighting T-cells, the immune system's primary enforcers, are scarce in the rare kidney cancer called chromophobe renal ...

Treatment with the anaerobe-targeting antibiotic clindamycin was linked to higher rates of gout flares compared with T/S, particularly among patients with CKD.

2017 is an important year for the international nephrology community. March 9 was World Kidney Day, the theme this year being ‘Kidney disease and obesity: healthy lifestyles for healthy kidneys’, ...

Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) is a serious kidney disease in children with no clear cause. In a recent study, researchers have identified a novel autoantibody targeting vinculin—a protein ...

With only one medication historically used to treat diabetic kidney disease, study of combination therapies with newer medicines is warranted and may improve outcomes in this patient population, a ...

It’s actually a chronic disease.” Saving people on the brink of dying from a drug overdose may be the most dramatic way that Central Neighborhood Health Foundation is combating the opioid epidemic, ...

Introduction The number of persons with chronic kidney disease (CKD) living in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is increasing rapidly; yet systems built to care for them have received little ...

Otsuka Pharmaceutical has shared more detailed data behind its kidney disease drug’s phase 3 win, showing the monoclonal antibody halved patients’ urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) levels.

The percentage of patients hospitalized with chronic liver disease increased from 7.4% in 2018 to 9% in 2023, with similar trends reported among those with acute kidney injury (27.1% to 31.2%; P ...

More information: Rajiv Agarwal et al, Finerenone with Empagliflozin in Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes, New England Journal of Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2410659 ...

We randomly assigned participants with chronic kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR], 30 to 90 ml per minute per 1.73 m 2 of body-surface area), albuminuria (a urinary ...