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 ...

Treatments for acute renal failure may include stopping the use of nephrotoxic drugs, which can damage the kidneys, and monitoring any underlying conditions that those drugs were treating. Short-term ...

Sanford Health researcher Kamesh Surendran, Ph.D., has received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate a surprising phenomenon in the kidney.

Kidney disease can cause facial swelling, itchiness, and blisters. Symptoms can depend on the stage of kidney disease. Uremic leontiasis ossea is a rare and severe complication of advanced kidney ...

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) today announced an investment from the NKF Innovation Fund in Nephrogen, a biotechnology company developing one-time gene editing therapies for kidney disease.