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Q & A: Why Do We Have Two Kidneys?

Posted on July 20, 2010April 14, 2015Author adminCategories Q & ATags kidney facts, nephrons2 Comments

Welcome to the first of our Q & A sessions with Alan S. L. Yu, M.D.  Dr. Yu is a practicing nephrologist as well as a former professor and scientist at USC Keck School of Medicine.  He is now at The University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Q: So we decided to start … Continue reading Q & A: Why Do We Have Two Kidneys?

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