In 2014, Amber Pettis felt nauseous and tired. She went to see her doctor because she thought she had a stomach bug. Instead, she learned she had kidney failure, a life-altering disease requiring long ...

A study led by Brown University researchers suggests that expanded health insurance coverage may significantly improve ...

A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment. The agency wanted to see if financial incentives and penalties would improve care for people with end-stage ...

Kidneys filter blood, removing toxins, excess fluid, and other harmful substances. When kidneys fail, or stop working completely, a person typically only has a few days to weeks to live without ...

With several new therapies, extensive research and critical trials underway, nephrology is in a “golden age,” according to ...

In one recent study, the challenging regimen added 77 days of life after three years. Often, kidney disease can be managed in other ways. By Paula Span Even before Georgia Outlaw met her new ...

The Dialysafe trial aimed to reduce episodes of intradialytic hypotension during hemodialysis sessions at the clinic level.

About 13% of African Americans carry two copies of the APOL1 gene variants linked to kidney disease, yet most will never know ...

The complex, life-saving surgery saved the patient, who had been suffering from end-stage renal disease as a result of his ...

Bill Dello, 73, of Berkeley mixes daily childcare for his grandchildren with kidney dialysis. He's saving their lives, but ...