(HealthDay News) — Muscle ultrasound can detect insulin resistance and lower muscle mass, according to a study published online June 12 in the Journal of Ultrasound Medicine.

In a new study, researchers demonstrate long-term, non-invasive monitoring of blood sodium levels using a system that combines optoacoustic detection with terahertz spectroscopy. The paper is ...

Every year, thousands of Americans die while waiting for a kidney. From 2010 to 2021, more than 100,000 people died on the transplant list. Right now, there are about 90,000 more waiting. The vast ...

Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said on Friday. Towana Looney, 53, lived ...

Organ transplants End Kidney Deaths Act Reintroduced in Congress While not as good as full legalization of organ markets, the act could save lives by giving kidney donors a $50,000 tax credit.

Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave off the disease’s worst effects.

The treatment of kidney stones could soon be getting much faster, easier, and safer. Scientists have devised a method of non-invasively tearing the objects apart, using swirling sound waves called ...

While Garfat continues to pray for that kidney, he hopes his story will remind everyone how to dance in the rain. When asking Garfat if he wants to tell the world anything, he didn't wait a second.

He received the pig kidney at Massachusetts General Hospital on Jan. 25. as part of a new study authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which will include a total of three patients.

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...

Title: Kidney-Targeted Delivery of Nonviral Nucleic Acids Using Noninvasive Transcutaneous Ultrasound Enables Safe, Re-dosable, Titratable, and Durable Gene Expression in Mice and Nonhuman Primates ...