Category: Kidney

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WINSTON-SALEM, NC – March 12, 2020 – The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is investigating how cats with chronic kidney disease could someday help inform treatment for humans.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. — An estimated 1 in 10 people worldwide have chronic kidney disease, but most of them don’t know it.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — New research indicates that tests of patients’ kidney health may provide insights on their risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about kidney stones.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A recommendation for more intensive blood pressure management from an influential global nonprofit that publishes clinical practice guidelines in kidney disease could, if followed, benefit nearly 25 million Americans

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — Among US adults with kidney failure, race and social determinants of health were associated with patients’ likelihood of receiving a kidney transplant.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — In a survey of adults with kidney failure who were receiving dialysis treatments, most patients were proficient in mobile health and willing to use it.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC (December 22, 2020) — The US Senate passed the Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act as part of a broad year-end legislative package….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — New research indicates that people may face a higher risk of developing kidney disease if they live in areas with elevated air pollution.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Inhibiting the Kv1.3 channel, a potassium channel expressed in tissues around the body, including vascular smooth muscle cells, may help prevent uremia-induced calcification in people with chronic kidney disease

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Race is not biology. As a social construct, race is an unreliable predictor of physiologic variation and a notoriously unreliable marker for biologic differences across populations.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) were linked to modest cost savings for the care of Medicare beneficiaries undergoing long-term dialysis.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — A recent analysis indicates that a drug shown previously to slow kidney disease progression is effective even in patients with advanced disease.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — A recent analysis examines research on the use of depression screening tools in patients with kidney failure. The results appear in an upcoming issue of CJASN.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — An analysis of data from across the U.S. indicates that acute kidney injury (AKI) is common among hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, and it’s associated with a higher risk of death.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Jeremy Cushwa isn’t the type of guy to back down from a challenge.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Surgeons at UI Health — the University of Illinois Chicago’s clinical and academic health enterprise — have performed the world’s first robotic-assisted double-kidney removal…

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Kidney injury is a dreaded complication in patients hospitalized for COVID-19, with more than a third of patients ending up in need of dialysis.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — Many individuals who develop COVID-19 experience kidney damage, or acute kidney injury (AKI).

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — Results from a new study indicate a need to reconsider certain medical terms and phrases that clinicians use when communicating with patients who have kidney disease.