DENVER (KDVR) — One in seven U.S. adults has kidney disease, according to the National Kidney Foundation. A new partnership is hoping to bring kidney screenings right to people who need them.

Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration. By Gina Kolata Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

Kidney stones under 6 millimeters (one-fourth inch) in size will usually pass on their own, but certain home remedies can make them easier and less painful to pass. The most important thing is to ...

Podocytes are located in structures called glomeruli, which make up the kidney’s filtration system. Damage to these cells can lead to impaired kidney function and eventually chronic kidney disease.

Rick Ward has lived without a kidney most his life and has lived a healthy life until up until just last month. And as someone who’s worked his entire life helping others, he’s hoping someone ...

Eleanor Rivera receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is affiliated with the National Kidney Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs. For a disease afflicting 35.5 ...

Public health officials were not notified. "In addition to the organ donor’s kidney, doctors implanted corneal grafts from the donor’s eyes into three different patients in three states," the ...

(WXYZ) — March is National Kidney Month, a time to highlight kidney disease and the efforts to prevent and manage it. More than 35 million Americans suffer from ...

First, the close proximity between the menstrual cup and the right ureteral ostium suggested a mechanical effect of the menstrual cup, potentially obstructing urine drainage from the right kidney ...

It was then that doctors told him that he needed a kidney transplant, “or else I would die,” he said. Medical records also show the acute illness that has drastically changed his life.

For those with kidney failure, the wait for a new kidney can take years. There are just not enough organs from deceased donors to fill the need. Fortunately, a person can live a healthy life with ...