A Pharmacist, Rotkang Okunlola, has identified self-medication and abuse of painkillers and antibiotics as some of the leading causes of kidney damage.

The President of Beatitudes Kidney and Eye Foundation, Dr Chimezie Okwuonu has expressed concern over the little coverage given to kidney dialysis in the nation’s National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, and called on the government to review the policy to make more accommodation for kidney dialysis.

By Vivian Ihechu According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), traditional medicine is generally available, affordable, and commonly used in large parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. WHO estimates that about 80 per cent of the population in developing countries still depend on traditional medicine for their Primary Healthcare (PHC) needs; however, this percentage […]

Dr Ade Faponle, a Neurologist with the Department of Medicine, Renal Care Centre, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), has advised Nigerians to get screened to prevent kidney diseases. Lassa fever: Centre advocates personal, environmental hygiene Faponle gave the advice on Thursday in Ilorin while speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of the celebration of […]

MY mother has End Stage Kidney Disease. She is dying, and only an urgent kidney transplant will save her.”

A 30-year-old Lead City University graduate, who is currently on weekly dialysis, is in dire need of N12 million to urgently carry out a kidney transplant to save her life.

Police in Nepal have arrested five men in connection with a kidney-smuggling racket allegedly luring poor people to hospitals in India to have their kidneys removed and sold, a police official said Monday.

Women are more likely to develop kidney disease than men due to factors such as pregnancy-induced hypertension

THE Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Umuahia, Abia State, has carried out two successful kidney transplant surgeries in collaboration with a team of doctors from University  of Toledo Medical Center, Ohio United States of America.

To voluntarily have one of your internal organs removed and given to a stranger does sound a bit crazy. But lately I’ve been speaking to quite a few people who deem it perfectly rational, and who struggle to understand why more people don’t do it.

In 2016, it was reported that a doctor of a private clinic in Jimeta (name withheld), allegedly conducted a surgery on Isa Hamman, a herdsman, removing his kidney in the process.

A 39-year-old man, Mr. Uchenna Onyenwe, is currently down with renal failure and needs the assistance of good-spirited individuals to carry out a kidney transplant. Onyenwe currently goes for dialysis twice a week to stay alive

March 9, 2017 was World Kidney Day, a day set aside for global awareness on the importance of kidney. The day was part of the campaign to urgently reduce the risk factors for chronic kidney disease, CKD, in the world. This year’s theme was “Kidney Disease & Obesity”.

Unlike chronic kidney disease, acute kidney failure develops rapidly, over days or weeks usually in response to a disorder that directly affects the kidney, its blood supply, or urine flow from it

Reports have emerged that Popular music producer, OJB Jezreel , is dead, three years after a successful kidney transplant surgery in India.