In 2014, Amber Pettis felt nauseous and tired. She went to see her doctor because she thought she had a stomach bug. Instead, she learned she had kidney failure, a life-altering disease requiring long ...

Among young adults with kidney failure, the expansion of Medicaid following the Affordable Care Act signed into law in 2010 ...

A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment. The agency wanted to see if financial incentives and penalties would improve care for people with end-stage ...

Metabolic and bariatric surgery, also known as weight-loss surgery, dramatically improves outcomes for patients with obesity ...

Primary care clinicians should initiate treatment options for advanced chronic kidney disease with older patients, according to the authors of a new review published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great majority of patients requiring kidney dialysis in the U.S. are treated in outpatient clinics almost all run by ...

Letters include how the Kidney Care Access Protection Act will benefit patients, and how Ventura's increased of sales tax isn ...

She wants her 11-year-old to worry about “school, friends and sleepovers” rather than “hospital wards, surgeries and dialysis ...

Kidney and heart patients are expected to get some relief as the government is going to withdraw some taxes on equipment for ...

She is a mother, competitive dance champion, kidney transplant recipient and Vanderbilt Health nurse. Culp has worked at the Vanderbilt Heart and ...

A family is marking the 10th anniversary of a son's life-saving donation of a kidney to his father. David Smith, 66, spent 20 ...