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Indian doctors have removed a kidney weighing 7.4kg (16.3lbs) – as much as two newborn babies – from a patient. It’s believed to be the largest kidney ever removed in India – a kidney usually weighs...

While a healthy-plant based diet is tied to a lower risk of kidney disease, people who fill their plates with starchy, sugary vegetarian fare may actually increase their risk of kidney damage, a new study suggests....

Despite 1 in 10 people worldwide (an estimated 850 million people) having chronic kidney disease (CKD), treatment and prevention efforts to stem this potentially fatal condition are far from adequate in rich countries, and often near...

Nearly one in 10 cancer patients treated with chemotherapy or newer targeted drugs may be hospitalized for serious kidney injury, a Canadian study suggests. The study involved roughly 163,000 patients who started chemotherapy or targeted therapies...

President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, underwent a surgical procedure on Monday to treat a benign kidney condition and will remain at Walter Reed medical centre for the rest of the week, the first lady’s office...

The procedure was carried out under the supervision of senior consultant urologist & transplant surgeon Dr. PM Deka and consultant nephrologist & renal transplant physician Dr. TA Choudhury at Dispur Hospital informed the city-based hospital’s public relation authority Ujjal Saikia....

News Hour: Dr. Tan Seng Hoe is a Renal Physician and an Internist runs SH Tan Kidney and Medical Clinic Pte Ltd. at the Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field. He currently...

News Hour: The kidneys are bean-shaped organs that serve several essential regulatory roles in vertebrates. Their main function is to regulate the balance of electrolytes in the blood, along with maintaining pH homeostasis. They also remove...

News Hour: Exelixis’s drug Cabometyx outperformed Pfizer’s Sutent in a clinical study for the treatment of metastatic kidney cancer, suggesting it has the potential to become a first-line treatment, researchers said on Monday. The drug is...

News Hour: Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, “Astellas”) and FibroGen, Inc. (“FibroGen”),  announced the dosing of the first patient in Phase 3 trials in Japan of roxadustat (development code: ASP1517/FG-4592) for treatment of anemia in chronic kidney...