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.

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 ...

In recent years, the medical community, researchers, and health policy makers have increasingly recognized that many long-established and widely used clinical decision-making tools actually perpetuate ...

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 ...

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