Kidney stones can form in your kidneys from minerals like calcium dissolved in your pee. (Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) Kidney stones may be as small as a grain of salt or as big as a kernel ...

For more than 40 years, nephrologists have classified diminished kidney function as two distinct syndromes — acute and chronic kidney failure. Whereas chronic kidney disease was recognized in ...

A kidney ultrasound is a quick and painless medical procedure that can provide information regarding the health of your kidneys. Doctors can use ultrasound imaging to assess the general health of ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig ...

Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. He was exhausted and hopeless.

A Sri Lankan man broke two world records this month due to the large size of a kidney stone doctors removed from his body, according to Guinness World Records. Canistus Coonghe, a 62-year-old ...

A 53-year-old Alabama woman is now free from years of dialysis after receiving a pig kidney transplant last month. "It's like a new beginning," Looney told The Associated Press. Right away ...

April 15 (UPI) --A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from the hospital in February, according to biotech firm ...

Her body began rejecting the pig kidney after a record 130 days. AP Before Looney’s transplant only four other Americans had received experimental xenotransplants of gene-edited pig organs ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons removed a genetically ...