Kidney failure, a silent killer, often goes unnoticed as the body adapts, masking symptoms like fatigue and swelling. The kidneys don’t cry for help.

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These three causes of acute kidney injury have different treatments and prognoses. Direct damage to the kidneys is often more difficult to fix and recover from, in comparison to obstructions in ...

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) indicates prolonged kidney damage over three months, often undetectable until significant harm occurs. Key risk factors include diabetes, high blood pressure, and ...

Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all in on artificial intelligence, and may soon go public at a ...

Britannica now uses A.I. in creating, fact-checking and translating content for its products, including the online Britannica encyclopedia.

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Hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are among the common causes of kidney failure. In the United States, approximately 35.5 million people have chronic kidney disease (CKD). 1 For ...

During a follow-up period of about 3.5 years, the researchers found that people in the semaglutide group had a 24% lower chance of having a major kidney disease event, like losing half of their ...

In the mouse MD cells, the scientists also identified specific signals from certain genes, including Wnt, NGFR, and CCN1, which could be enhanced by a low-salt diet to regenerate kidney structure ...

Macula Densa Cell LLC has a patent entitled “Targeting macula densa cells as a new therapeutic approach for kidney disease” (US patents 10,828,374 and 11,318,209).

“We know what has happened to astronauts on the relatively short space missions conducted so far, in terms of an increase in health issues such as kidney stones,” said Dr. Keith Siew, who is a ...