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The salt in our foods and table salt is made up of sodium and chloride. Too much sodium is bad for your health, and can increase your blood pressure a...

What would you do if you had a fever with irritation or pain when you urinate? Would you wait a few days and then make an appointment to see a doctor?...

There are easy ways to decrease the overall amount of fat in your diet while still consuming heart healthy fats. The key is to make these substitution...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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