An Omaha woman’s trip to the emergency room for a ruptured appendix led to the discovery of a two-pound kidney stone — and a first-of-its-kind robotic surgery in Nebraska that saved her kidney.

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A materials science collaboration between UChicago PME engineers and Duke doctors could lead to shorter, safer procedures ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surgery appears to be a safe option in certain elderly patients with kidney cancer, German researchers have found. However, it "certainly depends on a patient's health, ...

36-year-old Dickson Ndekei, a kidney recipient with Dr Patrick Mbugua Head of Renal at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). [Edward Kiplimo, Standard] For the past year, Dickson Ndekei Njoroge, 36, had ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago man was the first patient at Northwestern Medicine to receive a kidney transplant that he was awake for. John Nicholas, 28, had been experiencing kidney issues for over a ...