Your kidneys are remarkable organs that help keep your body in balance. They filter waste and excess salt from the blood and release hormones that adjust blood vessel tone, all of which plays a role ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have obtained important new insights into how our bodies regulate our blood pressure by revealing how our cells turn off a key hormone. The ...

Commonly prescribed drugs used to treat high blood pressure have been shown to, over time, wreck the kidneys' ability to filter and purify blood, but exactly how that dangerous side effect unfolded ...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, does far more than raise the numbers on a blood pressure monitor. When blood pressure ...

To most laymen, mention of anything seriously wrong with the circulation of the blood suggests trouble in the heart or the arteries leading to the brain; rarely do they consider the kidneys. But more ...

The human body can survive weeks without food, but only days without water. Yet millions of people walk around in a state of chronic dehydration, completely unaware that their kidneys are slowly ...

We spend so much time worrying about our liver, gut, heart, and kidneys. We detox them, feed them, and try to keep them ...

Light-driven antioxidant nanomotors help reach injured kidney tissue and reduce the damage that allows kidney stone crystals ...