Roughly one in seven American adults has chronic kidney disease, which can cause waste and fluid buildup in your body. Your ...

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found ...

They can cause tremendous pain—-talking about kidney stones—what do we know about them, who's most at risk, and how do you ...

Some say that passing a kidney stone is like delivering a baby made of razor blades. The good news is that, although they can be excruciatingly painful, kidney stones rarely ...