WASHINGTON -- Brenda Hudson recalls weeks spent in a glass-enclosed isolation room after her first kidney transplant, her family allowed to visit only when suited up against germs. That transplant ...

New kidney treatment techniques achieved impressive results in some studies, with one method showing 71% kidney recovery rates in critically ill patients. Results are frustratingly mixed: While some ...

* Kidney cancer is one of the ten most common types of cancer worldwide * Many are unaware how to maintain// kidney health when affected by cancer * Three essential tests can help detect kidney issues ...

A long-term follow-up study from a consortium of six European countries, coordinated by the department of Surgery of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) shows that, even 10 years after ...

Changes to eliminate race-based criteria from the kidney transplant list have benefited Black candidates, Medscape reported Aug. 26. In July 2022, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - There are more than 300 people who are currently on Hawaii’s transplant wait list. All of them are desperate for a new kidney. Despite the need, HNN Investigates has learned ...

Many of you laced up your jogging shoes and took part in the "Show us Your Kidneys" 5K Walk and Run Saturday morning at Schlitterbahn Corpus Christi. The run is put on by the Coastal Bend Kidney ...

Over the past several months, a small number of patients have received genetically modified pig kidneys. Three of the four procedures were performed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston.