Kidney disease is a major global health issue with implications for the lives of millions of people and for the cost of health care. Yet there is surprisingly little public awareness about the ...

In this Ask The Professor Q&A, David St-Jules, a registered dietitian and assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, and Dr. John Westhoff, associate professor in the School of Medicine and ...

Plant-based diets are a hot topic in chronic illness management, but they are often misperceived as an eating pat-tern that ...

Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, does a deep dive on the signs of kidney disease. Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are possible): ...

In November 2024, Sunita Bhosale woke up at 5:00 a.m. in excruciating pain. After Bhosale, 54, made her way to a local hospital, a doctor administered painkiller injections and intravenous drips and ...

A major kidney transplant breakthrough could transform how we fight the organ shortage crisis in the world. Scientists have discovered a way to convert a type A kidney into a universal donor kidney ...

Hydration is a surprisingly important diabetes health factor, and it’s even more important if you also have chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD develops in 10 to 40 percent of people with type 2 ...