Understanding your creatinine levels is important for monitoring kidney function. When you go for your yearly check-up, you'll likely have a routine blood test for creatinine. In some ...

Investigators compared the risk of cancer onset in patients with lupus nephritis treated with calcineurin inhibitors vs ...

Our kidneys may be small, but they play a major role in keeping our bodies healthy. These bean-shaped organs together ...

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Allopurinol appears to have a more pronounced urate-lowering effect among men with gout who have lower fractional excretion of urate (FEUA), according to study findings published in Arthritis & ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD IgA nephropathy is a chronic kidney disease in which IgA antibodies accumulate in ...

Analysis published in ASN, highlighted compelling evidence that ERAs offer substantial therapeutic benefits for CKD patients.

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Translational medicine researchers used the Mimetas® human kidney glomerulus-on-a-chip to investigate potential pharmaceutical interventions for patients with a severe kidney disease called focal ...

Scientists find how changes in bile acids linked to gut bacteria may signal advancing chronic kidney disease, pointing to a possible link between gut metabolism and kidney decline ...

Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...