NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Labs that conduct the highest number of routine blood tests are more likely than others to report estimated glomerular filtration ...

Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in kidney research. In a paper published in the journal Communications Biology, a team of researchers at Kyoto University led by Ramin Sadeghian present ...

(RTTNews) - Pet healthcare company IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (IDXX) announced Thursday the launch of the first veterinary diagnostic test for detecting kidney injury in cats and dogs. According to a ...

Poor kidney function occurs when the kidneys are unable to filter waste, excess fluids, and toxins from the blood effectively. This decline in function can be caused by conditions like diabetes, high ...

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found ...

Kidney fibrosis, a silent threat, involves scar tissue replacing normal kidney tissue, gradually impairing function. Often undetected until advanced stages, it stems from conditions like diabetes and ...

Even as a child, La’Tonzia Adams was interested in diagnosing disease. One day, when she noticed a bump on her chest, she decided to look up “chicken pox” in the Webster’s dictionary at her ...