Nearly 300,000 bottles of the drug, named Cinacalcet, were recalled and given a Class II recall risk level by the FDA.

Reddy's Cinacalcet Tablets in the US in 2000. It is estimated that around 23 percent of patients with kidney disease are ...

Background: A 30-year-old woman with suspected multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) was referred to our center in 2001 with primary hyperparathyroidism caused by a multiglandular parathyroid ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD A calcium blood test measures the calcium level in your blood. This test is typically ...

Renal osteodystrophy, resulting from chronic kidney disease, can be assessed by measurement of serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) or serum bone turnover markers. The latter approach is believed to be ...

Bone fracture may be among the adverse outcomes of acute kidney injury (AKI), investigators suggest. In a retrospective study of 123,426 Australian adults, 14,549 (12%) experienced an AKI episode and ...

People with advanced kidney disease are at the highest risk of having ... you may need surgery to remove one or more parathyroid glands (parathyroidectomy). Your doctor may also recommend ...

UAB Department of Surgery Fay Fletcher Kerner Chair Herbert Chen, M.D., has been featured by UAB MedCast to explain the signs, symptoms, and potential complications of parathyroid disease. Chen ...