A research team from the School of Chinese Medicine in the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has discovered that C-reactive protein (CRP) can exacerbate kidney ...

A new international study has found that using two medications together may protect the kidneys more effectively than using either drug alone in patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 ...

Inflammation has long been a warning sign in kidney clinics, a red flag that often appears years before a patient tips into organ failure. Now researchers are tracing that danger back to a single ...

Using human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived kidney organoids, researchers from Science Tokyo uncovered how abnormal Hippo signaling drives fibrosis in nephronophthisis, a genetic kidney disorder ...

The consequence of low blood protein depends on how low the protein becomes, which protein is low, and the cause of the low protein. Having a correct level of protein in the blood is essential for ...

The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a blood test to assess kidney function. The formula for calculating eGFR takes the patient’s body size, age, and sex into account to predict how well ...

Vegan and pesco-vegetarian diets were associated with better kidney function compared with nonvegetarian diets, according to study data published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition. In addition, the ...