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Did you know that obesity places you at increased risk for kidney disease? It directly causes diabetes and high blood pressure, two of the leading cau...

If you've gone for your annual physical recently, you're staring at a report that may as well have been written in a foreign language. Which numbers a...

Surviving the holidays with healthy habits intact can be tricky for anyone, but for those with kidney disease theres more at stake than just the numb...

Kidney stones send half a million Americans to the emergency room every year, but there are ways to decrease your risk. To help you learn about sympto...

How many times have you been told to eat more fruits and vegetables? According to the USDA, the average person should eat approximately 1.5-2 cups of ...

When you develop end stage kidney failure, your kidneys aren't able to function on their own anymore. This usually occurs when you lose about 85-90% o...

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

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...

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...