The terms renal failure and kidney failure are often used interchangeably, but they carry slightly different connotations. Both describe the same medical condition, a significant loss of kidney ...

Adults with prediabetes experience a faster decline in kidney function than those with normal glucose, highlighting the need ...

A randomized, controlled, nonblinded trial found that nutritional treatment with supportive education could help improve renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). A study published ...

Each year, thousands of infants in the United States end up in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) with acute kidney injury (AKI), a condition in which the kidneys falter in performing the critical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the United States, the annual rate of growth in incident patients with end-stage kidney disease has slowed.

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) do not appear to worsen kidney function compared with the histamine 2 receptor blocker ranitidine based on two measures, a large cohort study from Spain finds. In fact, ...

Impaired kidney function is associated with increased circulating levels of most Alzheimer disease (AD) blood biomarkers, but ...

Background Interstitial fibrosis in lupus nephritis (LN) is often infiltrated by immune cells but typically regarded as ...

Doctors often use 'renal failure' and 'kidney failure' interchangeably, both signifying a critical loss of kidney function. While 'renal' stems from Latin for kidneys and is common in medical jargon, ...