While men do tend to have physically larger kidneys, researchers aren’t entirely sure if this difference holds up once body ...

Some infants are born with too few nephrons, the filtering units in kidneys that help the body remove waste and excess fluid.

Chronic kidney disease is a permanent, progressive and irreversible deterioration of renal function in which the person ...

I am retiring from the Italian National Health Service. If someone were to ask me what I think of the Italian National Health ...

Each kidney is made of a million tiny structures called nephrons, which are responsible for filtering the blood. The filtered blood goes back to the bloodstream. From the kidneys, the excess water ...