Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD Your kidneys may be small in size, but they play an important role in the body.

Scientists found six biomarkers that detect drug-induced kidney injury within 24 hours, allowing faster treatment and safer ...

Critical Path Institute® (C-Path) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) published results for six biomarkers that could improve the early and accurate detection of kidney injury, leading to both the ...

Patanjali’s Renogrit effectively mitigates kidney damage caused by the cancer drug cisplatin, according to a study published ...

The kidney is a major site of organ damage caused ... blood flow characteristics and oxygen tensions. Most drug-induced renal injuries affect the proximal tubules. Drug toxicity initially targeted ...

After AKI develops, more physicians decide to discontinue pyrazinamide, rather than rifampin, implying that they do not know which of the first-line anti-TB drugs is the most common offending drug ...

Drug-induced lupus is more common in men because they are given these drugs more often; however, not everyone who takes these drugs will develop the disease. Specific criteria for diagnosing ...

[11] Because the elderly are more vulnerable to drug-induced AKI and usually have poor renal recovery, [14,15] AKI during anti-TB treatment may be more common and serious in Taiwan, where more ...