Heart failure that ultimately results from disease factors like high blood pressure can be predicted and potentially prevented. In a new University of Alabama at Birmingham study, scientists show how ...

New research indicates that sustained fluid overload - when there is too much fluid in the blood - may increase the risk of early death in kidney failure patients on hemodialysis. The findings, which ...

A new study published in CJASN found substantial volume overload, or too much fluid in the body, in patients with kidney failure who initiated peritoneal dialysis. Volume overload tended to improve ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sorbent Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for cardiovascular and renal diseases, today announced that patient ...

Clinical researchers found that giving higher doses of the diuretic spironolactone could safely and effectively treat fluid excess in heart failure patients who did not respond to other diuretics.

A phenomenon known as "overload failure" may have contributed to a single-engine plane crash June 30 in Delaware County that killed all five people aboard, according to a preliminary report released ...