SPOTLIGHT: Chronic kidney disease

In last month's Spotlight, we looked at urological diseases including kidney stones and prostate disease. This month, we'll continue the urological theme but instead focus on chronic kidney disease (CKD) and finish off with two commonly encountered conditions in medical screening. The conditions we covered last month are normally treated by specialists known as urologists, whereas chronic kidney diseases are treated by specialists called nephrologists - so called because nephrons are an important part of kidney's anatomy and its main functioning unit.  What is chronic kidney disease (...