“My feet would be really swollen after uni. I used to elevate them but they weren’t getting better so my parents persuaded me ...

Kidney disease results from kidney damage and subsequent decline in kidney function, says Dr. Pooja Budhiraja, a nephrologist ...

Medically reviewed by Karina Tolentino, RD Kidney failure, or end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), occurs when the kidneys are no ...

Lisa Parker never thought she’d be living her life around dialysis treatments. Diagnosed with stage 4 kidney disease without ...

Scientists have revealed that a toxin found in the blood of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) damages the body's ...

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Diabetes is the leading cause of nontraumatic lower limb amputation and end stage kidney disease that requires dialysis. Essentially, patients with diabetes have a 12.3-fold chance of having a lower ...

ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) -According to local health experts, one of the biggest problems many hard-working West Texans face ...

With the goal of  improving the number of life-saving kidney transplants, a new final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...

We’ve always had a very close relationship,” one twin said. “People always said we were like one coat of paint.” ...

He considers himself "one of the lucky ones". "It took a while to be diagnosed [with kidney failure] and to actually start dialysis I had some unusual symptoms, an occasion where my lips swelled ...