A second transplant patient also became infected, leading their doctors to surmise that their new kidneys were likely to ...

Background: A 27-year-old male renal allograft recipient presented to hospital with isolated skin ulcers on both lower limbs. At presentation, he also had a low-grade continuous fever, malaise and ...

In their 1981 paper on post-transplantation infections in renal transplant recipients, Rubin et al. reported that tuberculosis was most prevalent 1-3 months after renal transplantation. [8] ...

Dr. Aileen Marty, Infectious Disease Specialist and Professor at Florida International University, joins Bob Sirott to talk about the latest health news. Dr. Marty shares a study that was done on ...

Key takeaways: A four-drug combination administered early may be a better strategy for treating diabetic kidney disease than the usual care. The GOLD-STANDARD trial is designed to test this ...

Otsuka Pharmaceutical has shared more detailed data behind its kidney disease drug’s phase 3 win, showing the monoclonal antibody halved patients’ urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) levels.

More information: Rajiv Agarwal et al, Finerenone with Empagliflozin in Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes, New England Journal of Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2410659 ...

We randomly assigned participants with chronic kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR], 30 to 90 ml per minute per 1.73 m 2 of body-surface area), albuminuria (a urinary ...

Kidney disease is an example of the damage that prolonged, incessant heat can do to the body, says Ollie Jay, a heat physiologist at the University of Sydney in Australia.