Renal Disease

Innovative Kidney Care says the severe nursing shortage is making it difficult for patients to move from facility-based dialysis to home dialysis.

Fewer Black patients will be left unaware of their true kidney function status if their healthcare providers switch to a diagnostic test that doesn’t rely on a race variable, according to a new report...

Many elderly are being diagnosed and treated for a condition that will never cause symptoms or hasten death, a new study suggests. The current threshold for CKD diagnosis needs to change, investigators...

Farxiga, an SGLT2 inhibitor, was found to reduce the risk of worsening renal function or cardiovascular or renal death by 39% in patients with chronic kidney disease — with and without type 2 diabetes.

A review of COVID-19’s effects on human organs shows that a substantial proportion of patients suffer kidney, heart, and brain damage.

Depression, anxiety linked to opioid use in older women with breast cancer … Psychiatric illnesses common in adults with kidney failure … Stroke patients benefit from observing own hand in video-assisted...

Elderly patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma have a three-month survival advantage with targeted therapies compared to older treatments, a new study finds.

RRC Lapeer Home Choice LLC and NexCare Health System will offer on-site dialysis services to residents in NexCare Centers.

An “epidemic” of inappropriate diuretic prescribing is hitting seniors, a top researcher says. The drugs are widely overused to treat arterial hypertension, heart failure and renal disease,...

A major clinical trial out of the United Kingdom points a new direction for treating a common form of kidney disease.