World Kidney Day is observed every year on the second Thursday of March. This day aims to spread awareness and share some ...

According to the National Kidney Foundation, several factors may determine your “normal” creatinine levels. As such, people with creatinine levels within these ranges may actually have kidney ...

an abnormal structure in the kidney that is formed by a failure of the mesenchymal tissue to differentiate into nephrons. Nephrogenic rests also occur infrequently in normal kidneys, but are much ...

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a family of genetic disorders that causes clusters of cysts to form on the kidney, is among the most common genetic disorders, affecting some 500,000 people in the ...

A kidney transplant was deemed essential for her to live a normal life. However, neither parent was a compatible donor, placing Van on the waiting list for a kidney from a brain-dead donor. In late ...