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 ...

Your urine may seem like a routine bodily function, but it is an important diagnostic tool for determining kidney health.

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) refers to a heterogenous group of cancers that originate in the proximal convoluted tubule of the kidney. The three most common forms of RCC are clear cell RCC ...

What Is Renal Cell Carcinoma? It's the most common type of kidney cancer. Although it’s a serious disease, finding and treating it early makes it more likely that you’ll be cured. No matter ...

When renal cell cancer is “metastatic,” that means it has spread from your kidney to other parts of your body. Bones are a common place for this cancer to travel. It's harder to treat the ...

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks pancreatic beta cells. Type 2 diabetes happens when the body cannot use insulin effectively. The two types differ in symptoms, causes ...

Meanwhile, continuous renal replacement therapy, plasma exchange, and immunoglobulin infusion were performed, and rituximab was tried (2 × 500 mg intravenous infusions, each separated by 15 days) to ...

A newly published study in Genes & Diseases highlights the crucial role of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in the progression of diabetic nephropathy (DN) and explores its potential ...

Credit: Getty Images Stem cell therapies are emerging as potential treatments across the endocrinology realm, from diabetes to autoimmune thyroid disease to osteoporosis. Stem cells are becoming more ...