Organ-on-a-chip simulates drug-triggered muscle and kidney injury

Rhabdomyolysis is a condition in which muscle damage—often caused by drug intake—can lead to impaired kidney function and ...
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Fasting diet may aid kidney function, study suggests

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found ...

Movement matters: Light activity may lead to better survival in diabetes, heart, kidney disease

Light intensity activities, like walking or household chores, were linked to a lower risk of death for people with ...
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Do Proton Pump Inhibitors Worsen Kidney Function?

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) do not appear to worsen kidney function compared with the histamine 2 receptor blocker ranitidine based on two measures, a large cohort study from Spain finds. In fact, ...