Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects nearly 36 million people. “CKD is a real public health crisis, and one that’s steadily rising,” said Merlin Thomas, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., FRACP, a professor of ...

It was a clarifying question. As I stood by the hospital nurse manager, I was prepared to explore any request that would make nurses’ lives easier. I was the hospital system’s head of enterprise ...

The updated labeling also includes new guidance for monitoring renal function in patients taking Lupkynis. The prescribing information for Lupkynis ™ (voclosporin) has been updated to include ...

Alexandre Boulanger is better known for building self-balancing exoskeletons at Wandercraft. For his next trick, the Paris-based robotics entrepreneur is fronting work on a far lighter kind of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The updated label includes 3-year data in which 20.1% of treated patients achieved sustained complete renal ...

Credit: Shutterstock An investigation explored associations between rapid kidney function decline and increased heart failure risk in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Carefully monitoring kidney ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Travere Therapeutics, Inc., (Nasdaq: TVTX) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updated Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy ...

A urine protein test measures the amount of protein in a urine sample. A doctor may suggest this test to help evaluate and monitor kidney function and potentially detect kidney damage. The kidneys ...

Lower kidney function is associated with elevated Alzheimer’s blood biomarkers, raising implications for dementia diagnosis ...

Clinicians should monitor patients with stones, even if they are asymptomatic, to slow kidney function decline, investigators suggest. Even asymptomatic kidney stones may spur kidney function decline ...