Each human kidney has about 1 to 2 million filtering units called nephrons that help purify our blood and remove waste ...

Brad Arnold, singer for the band 3 Doors Down, shared his stage 4 kidney cancer diagnosis this week, revealing that doctors discovered the cancer after he'd felt sick and been in the hospital.

Your kidneys work tirelessly as your body’s filtration system, processing roughly 200 quarts of blood daily to remove waste and excess fluid. Despite their vital importance, kidney problems ...

However, this value alone is not sufficient to give an early detection of kidney failure, as it only rises when kidney ...

The CDC reports that several factors raise the likelihood of developing kidney disease, including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and a family history of kidney problems. The ...

(KPHO/Gray News) — For his 24th birthday last Sunday, Lukas Kirby says he wished for the ultimate gift: a kidney ... saying I was a B positive blood type and literally a few months ago, we ...

They do not yet form an organized tree-like structure of many twigs and branches leading ... have a system to filter blood plasma, another critical component of kidney physiology.