The pandemic has exposed racial disparities in health care that became obvious in COVID-19 case rates and patient treatment. Another less apparent disparity? Kidney disease. Before the pandemic, Black ...

Evaluating both biomarkers may identify far more people with poor kidney function, and earlier in the disease process.

Researchers have identified an approach to remove race from equations used to estimate a person’s kidney function. These equations have been criticized for potentially perpetuating racial health ...

Kristal Higgins just wants to be healthy, become a nurse and travel to Greece. But she has kidney failure and has been on a transplant waiting list for six years. The disease and its comorbidities ...

An Australian medical technology company, Proteomics International, has published a study demonstrating a new blood test significantly outperforms conventional tests in identifying the risk of ...

A new testing protocol identifies patients whose chest pain is heart-related even though their main heart arteries look ...

To commemorate World Kidney Day which holds on March 14th of every year, OAP Emma Ugolee, has implored people to run a renal function test so as to know the state of their kidney. The OAP said one can ...

The results of two large-scale studies demonstrate that sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors significantly ...