The liver and kidneys are the body's built-in detoxifiers, working around the clock to filter out toxins, process nutrients, ...

April is Donate Life Month, and Pittsburgh has been called the "transplantation capital of the world" because of the ...

Professor Kenji Osafune (Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation) and his team of researchers have devised an effective ...

There is a donated kidney shortage in the U.S. It’s leaving more than 100,000 people on a years-long waitlist. And despite ...

For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the U.S., chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people ...

Nellie Zygiel of Fairhaven has battled illness much of her life. Diagnosed with a rare disease, her life has been saved ...

Children with obesity and subclinical hypothyroidism have twice the risk for kidney damage compared with those without subclinical hypothyroidism, a retrospective study shows.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...

We often get to hear about kidney failures but we never try to understand the causes and how we can prevent it from happening ...

Ian Hawker sacrificed his kidney to save his sister, and 34 years later, his son volunteered to save his aunt with the same ...

PORTLAND, Ore. ( KPTV /Gray News) - A family has come together now more than once to help save one of their loved ones in ...