Latest News

• Kidney Disease Often Due to Untreated Hypertension (05/25/2001, Reuters)

From the National Institutes of Health

• Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

General/Overviews

Kidney Disease Facts & Statistics: Frequently Asked Questions (American Society of Nephrology)

Anatomy/Physiology

Your Kidneys and How They Work (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Clinical Trials

ClinicalTrials.gov: Kidney Diseases (National Institutes of Health)

ClinicalTrials.gov: Nephritis (National Institutes of Health)

Clinical Trials: Kidney Disease (CenterWatch, Inc.) - industry-sponsored clinical trials

Clinical Trials: Nephropathy (CenterWatch, Inc.) - industry-sponsored clinical trials

Diagnosis/Symptoms

Erythropoietin (EPO) and the EPO Test (MedicineNet, Inc.)

Hematuria: Blood in the Urine (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Medical Tests of Kidney Function (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Proteinuria (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Radiography-Intravenous Pyelogram (American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America)

Ultrasound-Abdomen (American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America)

Urinalysis (MedicineNet, Inc.)

Prevention/Screening

Take Charge of Your Diabetes: Kidney Problems (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Research

'Knockout' Mouse May Lead To Major Understanding of Human Kidney Disorder (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Drugs Found to Protect the Kidneys (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Specific Conditions/Aspects

Analgesic Nephropathy (Painkillers and the Kidneys) (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Genital and Urinary Tract Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)

Glomerular Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Glomerulonephritis (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Glomerulosclerosis (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Goodpasture Syndrome (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

IgA Nephropathy (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Kidney Disease of Diabetes (National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse)

Lupus Nephritis (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Nephrotic Syndrome in Adults (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Polycystic Kidney Disease (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Pyelonephritis (Kidney Infection) in Adults (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Renal Tubular Acidosis (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Simple Kidney Cysts (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Dictionaries/Glossaries

Kidney Diseases Dictionary (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Directories

Directory of Kidney and Other Urologic Diseases Organizations (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Find a Urologist (American Urological Association)

Journals/Newsletters

Electronic Kidney (National Kidney Foundation)

Organizations

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

National Kidney Foundation

National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Polycystic Kidney Research Foundation

Statistics

FASTATS: Kidney/Bladder Disorders (National Center for Health Statistics)

Kidney and Urologic Disease Statistics for the United States (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Children

Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Growth Failure in Children with Kidney Disease (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Kidney Diseases in Children (Nemours Foundation)

Renal Imaging in Children (Society of Nuclear Medicine)

Vesicoureteral Reflux (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Women

Pregnancy and Kidney Disease (National Kidney Foundation)

Español/Spanish

Dieta para Enfermedades Renales (University of Utah, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, Health Sciences Center)