Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...

An expert task force on Thursday released a new and much-anticipated approach for diagnosing kidney function, saying there is no need for controversial algorithms that consider race in the assessment ...

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 ...

A mismatch between two common tests for kidney function may indicate a higher risk for kidney failure, heart disease, and ...

David joined the WCCO team in April 2020, previously working at CBS 58 in Milwaukee. Prior to that, he worked in Las Vegas. While there, David covered several stories in the national spotlight, ...

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. IDXX has announced that the SDMA-based chronic kidney disease (CKD) staging guidelines have now been generated and approved by the International Renal Interest Society (IRIS).

For accurate results, you may need to fast for certain tests. This requires you to avoid certain foods and drinks. Learn more ...

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Investigator in the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA. To facilitate translational research on ...

A comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) is a set of tests that a doctor may order to find out more about a person’s overall health. These are routine tests that can help evaluate how well the body is ...