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Shedding pounds may be hard work, but it doesnt need to be complicated. People tend to underestimate how much they actually eat, which can contribute...

Diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis) cause damage to both the heart and kidneys. So if you ...

One in three Americans is at risk for kidney disease due to high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. High blood pressure is a leading cause of...

Kidney transplant patients have a weaker response to influenza immunization than healthy individuals, especially in the first six months after receivi...

Summer is here and its time to fire up the grill! Throw on the chicken and burgers, but think twice before loading up on the extras. Extras can rui...

Each year in the United States, about 51,000 adults will be diagnosed with kidney cancer. The exact cause of kidney cancer is unclear, but having adva...

For as far back as she can remember, Dolores Bisagni has suffered from high blood pressure. "I think I've had it forever," she says. Somehow, the cond...

The terrible pain of kidney stone disease may be more common in people with metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of five traits that also sets the stage fo...

Kidney failure can strike anyone at any age -men, women and children. For more than 380,000 Americans with kidney failure, dialysis treatment performs...