A kidney transplant is placing a healthy kidney into a person whose kidneys have failed and not working properly. It is ...

Drinking electrolyte drinks unnecessarily can put extra stress on the kidneys. Too much sodium and potassium may raise the ...

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Q: What are kidney stones, and how do I prevent them? Kidney stones are common, impacting approximately one in five men and ...

A major pooled analysis published in JAMA has shown that sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors deliver consistent ...

A1C, LDL, HDL… the number of medical abbreviations you might see on your patient portal is enough to make you think your ...

Wendy Wisner is a journalist and international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). She has written about all things pregnancy, maternal/child health, parenting, and general health and ...

For most healthy women, optimal fasting insulin levels should be less than 25 mIU/L (milli-international units per liter), ...

Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome includes heart and kidney disease, diabetes and obesity. New study suggests ...

Research suggests vitamin D supplements may help some people with prediabetes restore normal blood sugar levels when combined with healthy lifestyle changes.

Kidney disease doesn’t arrive with sirens. It doesn’t announce itself loudly. Most of the time, it slips in quietly, doing ...

Light intensity activities, like walking or household chores, were linked to a lower risk of death for people with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome, according to new research published ...