The kidneys are the body's filtration system. These fist-sized, bean-shaped organs manage the body's fluid and electrolyte ...

Kidney stones last days to weeks as they pass from the kidney down the urinary tract. This article explains what affects how ...

Kidney stones are hard objects made from chemicals in your pee. They may be as tiny as a grain of salt or as big as a corn kernel. The stones can be brown or yellow, smooth or rough. They're a ...

The first man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the operation, the hospital which carried out the procedure has said. Richard "Rick" Slayman, 62 ...

A new study by the University of Paris-Saclay suggests that the scene of ‘The Flood’ in the Sistine Chapel frescoes depicts a ...

On a March evening in 2020, millions of devotees of hit hospital drama Grey’s Anatomy settled down to ... she’d also lost part of her leg and a kidney because of it,” says our source.

New research has revealed that the connection between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and kidney damage may ... in the environment or the human body, they take a very long time ...

Gut microbiota is implicated in the right functioning of many organs, such as lungs, kidneys, liver, heart and brain. However, any disruption to the microbiota homeostasis results in the ...

Men with both diabetes and kidney disease will develop heart health problems 28 years earlier than those without either ...

Surgeons in the US who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient ... alpha-gal – a prime target for roving human antibodies – the NYU Langone team were able ...

The new three-episode Peacock docuseries “Anatomy of Lies” (now streaming ... Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin secretly gave her a kidney, and more. Vanity Fair first broke the story in ...