Fighting off infections when one has a chronic disease is a common problem, and during the COVID-19 pandemic that scenario often turned out to be dangerous and deadly. A new study led by Stony Brook ...

Infections in the lower urinary tract rarely migrate to the kidneys, but the precise mechanism that the human body employs to keep the twin organs disease-free has remained a medical mystery—until now ...

Stewart wanted to design a non-invasive way to diagnose kidney disease. To determine the extent of organ damage, healthcare professionals often need to perform a biopsy. Instead, Stewart wanted to get ...

Approximately one in seven adults in the United States has kidney disease, where the organs responsible for filtering waste and excess water from the blood are damaged, according to the Centers for ...