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A new American study suggests that medical tests often fail to diagnose high blood pressure in kids with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

The report indicates that those childr... Read more

Poor kidney function may increase an individual's risk for suffering heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease and early death, reveals a new study.

Researc... Read more

Extending hepatitis C treatment for liver transplant patients results in high rates of clearance of the hepatitis C virus from the blood, as well as a low rate of relapse, a study... Read more

Research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, CA says that switching to a newer type of immunosuppressant drug ... Read more

Research by an Indian-origin scientist has revealed that racial discrimination exists even in the world of kidney transplantation. Wonder how?

When it comes to kidney transplant,... Read more

A paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, CA says that get-togethers with a kidney disease patient's family ... Read more

A paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's annual meeting in San Diego, CA says that kidney transplant consent forms are often written at a level that makes it difficult... Read more

Left side grafting has lower risk to donors compared to grafts taken from the right lobe, and it appears to be the procedure of choice for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (... Read more

A severe form of of seasonal influenza world-wide affects 3-5 million people and 250-500,000 die from complications on an annual basis. The emergence of the novel 2009 H1N1 (nH1N1) influenza... Read more

British scientists believe that the first-ever successful womb transplant will be carried out within two years.

The boffins have worked out how to transplant a womb with a good b... Read more