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Kidney health

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A hand holds a smartphone with a blank screen beside a glucose meter, a lancing device and a strip container on a wooden table.

Three years on a glucose sensor linked to lower blood sugar and less urine protein, not better kidney function

Oct 14, 2026

A blue ashtray filled with stubbed-out cigarette butts and ash, with one cigarette resting on the rim.

Quitting smoking tied to less nerve damage in diabetes after six years, less kidney and eye damage after eight

Oct 14, 2026

A clinician squeezes the bulb of a manual blood pressure cuff wrapped around a patient's arm resting on a white desk.

Tighter blood pressure control cut cardiovascular events with or without kidney disease in 27 trials

Oct 9, 2026

Small anatomical models of a heart, lungs, intestines and a pair of kidneys laid out with wooden blocks on a pale surface.

Kidney transplant's survival edge over dialysis narrowed for older patients given higher-risk donor organs

Oct 9, 2026