Health Highlights of the Month

Organ Donor Month
The kidneys play a major role in removing waste products and excess fluid from the body through urine. The production of urine involves highly complex steps of filtration (the process where cells and large proteins are filtered from the blood to eventually become urine), excretion (removal of waste products) and re-absorption (transport of molecules from urine back into the blood) These processes are all essential in maintaining a stable balance of chemicals in the body.^1A,1E
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