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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious, broad clinical syndrome associated with increased short-term mortality and long-term morbidity. AKI is defined as an abrupt decrease in kidney function leading to an increase in serum creatinine and/or a decrease in urine output. The condition is often multi-factorial in origin​1​. While the origin of an AKI is…

Music icon Carly Simon announced Monday that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and recently underwent surgery to remove skin cancer from her face, breaking years of public silence about the health struggles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight, PEOPLE reports

Obesity is a chronic, adiposity-based disease with increasing global prevalence and multiple, competing definitions. Traditionally, body mass index (BMI) has been the primary tool for diagnosis, although it does not completely reflect adipose tissue mass, distribution or associated organ dysfunction. In the past 2 years, major professional societies (including the European Association for the Study…