When it comes to making chili, knowing the difference between beans is important. It seems obvious that chili beans would be used for making a pot of delicious chili, so where do kidney beans fall ...

Background: A limiting factor in expanding the kidney donor pool is donor kidneys with renal tumors or cysts. Partial nephrectomy (PN) to remove these lesions prior to transplantation may help ...

Renal hypoplasia, defined as abnormally small kidneys with normal morphology and reduced nephron number, is a common cause of pediatric renal failure and adult-onset disease. Genetic studies ...

Women of menstrual age are familiar with the cramping that comes along with the dreaded time of the month. Although, when that pain is out of the ordinary, it may be a sign of a ruptured ovarian cyst.

A Phase 3 clinical trial found that injections of the semaglutide medication once weekly reduced the risk of kidney disease worsening by 24% in people who also had diabetes. It also reduced the ...

Acute renal failure is caused by damage to the kidneys, which can occur as a result of blood loss, toxins, or physical damage to the kidneys. Acute renal failure occurs rapidly, causing generalized ...

Sophie Pierce will be the first person with cystic fibrosis to do just that, travelling from Lanzarote to Antigua. A historic achievement when you consider what she's been through and when ...

and an afflicted individual develops kidney cysts that eventually cause kidney failure, according to experts. The disease is caused by inheriting a non-functional PKD1 gene. A cyst doesn't happen ...

The presence and localization of kidney cysts as well as the ratio of the signal intensity between medulla and cortex were determined. RESULTS: Fifty percent of the Fabry disease patients had ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is marked by the gradual loss of kidney function, which means the kidneys cannot filter waste and regulate water and acid in the blood as well as they should. Early in the ...