To address the shortage of kidneys, a lobbying group aims to push a law in the US that financially compensates living donors. The initiative would create an ethical dilemma. "It is very concerning ...

Kidney Transplant System Continues To Deal With Racial Bias, Despite Changes Although Pavlakis said that the belief that Black people's kidneys functioned differently than other ethnic groups ...

Recent research from Wuhan University challenges the conventional understanding of Parkinson’s disease, suggesting that the ...

The University of Wisconsin transplant team recently collaborated with the UW National Primate Research Center and the UW Veterinary Hospital to pursue a novel kidney transplant procedure involving ...

We place a burden on potential organ donors, including financial costs. That needs to change if we're serious about saving lives.

Find out more about lupus nephritis, a condition when lupus causes inflammation in the kidneys, making them unable to function properly.

Bioethicist Ana Iltis explains the flawed system that erroneously considers all Black donor kidneys more likely to stop working after a transplant than kidneys from donors of other races, leading ...

Both types of C3 glomerulopathy can cause significant kidney disease and have a major effect on your health. How the Complement System Affects Your Kidneys When you have C3 glomerulopathy, your ...

The complement system plays a part in glomerular disease. There are two main forms of glomerular disease: dense deposit disease and C3 glomerulonephritis. Learn more about them both.

A Colorado woman with stage 5 renal failure is scrambling to find a new hospital to perform a kidney transplant after a health system in the state denied the transplant due to her and her donor ...

About 13 percent of the patients with kidney failure who register with the Renal Data System begin peritoneal dialysis at home — a more common treatment in other countries but one that, with ...