For people living with kidney disease and closely-related risk factors such as diabetes, staying active can make a life-changing difference to their health, independence and quality of life. Yet too ...

What are the symptoms of kidney disease? Most people with early kidney disease don’t have any symptoms at all, and so don’t know that there’s anything wrong with their kidneys. More advanced kidney ...

A new clinical network has been launched to increase time to check the health of donated kidneys and increase in the number ...

Researching if changes to a gene called APOL1, which are more common in people from African descent, could affect kidney ...

Health is a human right. And yet, in the UK – one of the richest nations in the world and with healthcare free at the point of delivery – access to good kidney health is not equally available to all.

Professor Nick Selby is researching using a new system to better monitor blood pressure in people having haemodialysis ...

England have been crowned champions for the first time at the transplant football World Cup, following a 5-1 victory over Spain in Frankfurt on 18 September 2026. One of the stars of the team was ...

High-fat diets are becoming more common in modern society, and they are known to increase the risk of health problems such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. "Early pre-clinical research in our ...

Women living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are planning a pregnancy often face difficult conversations. Doctors know that CKD can increase risks for both mother and baby, but it has been hard ...

A treatment to reduce persistently high levels of potassium in the blood in adults living with CKD in Scotland has been recommended for a wider group of patients by the Scottish Medicines Consortium ...

New NHS figures out today reveal that the UK organ transplant waiting list has hit a new high, and that the number of people waiting for a kidney transplant continues to go up. But, at the same time, ...

Many patients living with kidney failure often rely on haemodialysis. This is a way of replacing some of the functions of the kidney by using a machine to filter and clean the blood. Treatment often ...