Kidney stones are hard lumps made of minerals and salts that form inside the kidneys. They can cause severe pain, especially when passing through the urinary tract. About one in ten people will have a ...

This is Part 3 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. There it was on James Cannon’s lab report, two ...

Research has shown that people with long-term, uncontrolled high blood pressure are much more likely to develop chronic ...

Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig last month. Looney is a 53-year-old grandmother from Gadsden, Ala. She's been ...

When we talk about stones forming inside the body, we often talk about two types of stones - one is kidney stone, and the other is gallbladder stone.