For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the U.S., chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people ...

Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as a source ...

Research led by Children's Hospital of Fudan University in China has found that a gene called pancreatic progenitor cell ...

Deficiency of the pancreatic progenitor cell differentiation and proliferation factor gene was identified as a risk factor ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as a progressive loss of renal function that lasts for more than 3 months, and is classified according to the degree of kidney damage – measured by the le ...

Clinicians should continue to monitor UACR or UPCR in at-risk children. During periods of rapid growth such as puberty, children with low GFR may show rapid decline in kidney function. Puberty is a ...

INTERPRETATION: To target higher haemoglobin concentrations when treating patients with anaemia caused by chronic kidney disease with recombinant human erythropoietin puts such patients at ...

Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKis) are an important treatment option for people with chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.