Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease and failure, so it’s important to try to avoid developing diabetes and to properly manage the disease if you have it. Diabetes can damage your kidneys, which makes it increasingly difficult for them to clean your blood...
Your kidneys are very busy trash collectors. Every day, these two, bean-shaped organs on each side of your spine filter waste out of your body and keep you healthy. They actually do much more than that to keep you in top form. You can’t live without kidneys — complete...
Today, one in three American adults is at risk of kidney disease. In fact, the National Kidney Foundation reports that 26 million Americans have kidney disease and most don’t even know it. How can that be? Unlike many other ailments, kidney disease often...