Christmas is peak kidney stone season in Australia—blame dehydration, the heat and all that food
Christmas in Australia is a great time to spend enjoying the outdoors, with plenty of good food and drink.
Dec 17, 2025
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Nephrology news
Kidney controls calcium flow with a network of tight junctions, finds study
Researchers have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which the kidney precisely controls calcium excretion. The claudin-14 protein plays a key role in this process: It displaces the paracellular transport protein ...
Dec 16, 2025
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'Tubuloids' offer a realistic platform for modeling chronic kidney disease
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition that begins with tissue damage and gradually leads to loss of kidney function. The condition, which affects about 10% of the global population, is difficult to study ...
Dec 16, 2025
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Preventive care protocol lowers risk of kidney injury after major surgery
The kidneys are among the most important organs of the human body. Every day they filter around 1,500 liters of blood, regulate electrolyte and fluid balance, control blood pressure and play a central role in detoxifying ...
Dec 10, 2025
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How can we better protect a transplanted kidney? AI-based antibody analytics point the way
When we think of kidney transplantation, we usually focus on surgery, immunosuppressive drugs, and early post-operative tests. Much less attention is paid to what happens months or years later, when a silent damaging process ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Understanding the scars of kidney disease
Scarring is a key feature of chronic kidney disease. Now, University of Connecticut researchers report in Kidney International that a specific protein encourages scar tissue formation. Their research could someday help preserve ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Research team studies hydration at 2024 Boston Marathon
A research team from the College of Education and Health Professions, along with co-authors from several other institutions, recently published a study they conducted at the 2024 Boston Marathon examining the role of hydration ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Glut1 protein may be a potential therapeutic target for kidney disease
Targeting and disabling a certain protein essential to transporting glucose properly through cells (Glucose Transporter 1, or Glut1) could be a new way to fight kidney disease, according to a study led by Partha Biswas, DVM, ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not. Why is that?
In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic human tissue and was grown ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Study highlights underrecognized link between kidney disease and cognitive decline
A new study published in the American Journal of Physiology—Heart and Circulatory Physiology reveals that chronic kidney disease (CKD) accelerates cognitive decline through interconnected damage to the heart and brain—and ...
Dec 5, 2025
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