Kidney Research Articles & Analysis
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This number was set to increase by 6% year on year before the onset of COVID-19, however the increase in patients will now likely be higher given the long-term damage that the virus can wreak on patients’ kidneys. For particularly ill patients with COVID-19, the virus can cause acute kidney failure which can eventually turn into chronic ...
Lung Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for orphan, pulmonary indications, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant of $300,228 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study potential therapies that target fibrotic processes in the kidneys. Addressing an Unmet Medical ...
The study, led by Eric Klein, M.D., chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, involved leading researchers from Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, University of Texas Southwestern, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Rabin Medical Center (Israel), and other academic and community clinical sites. ...
While the first product is aimed at kidney dialysis, there is also potential to use the technology with other devices or procedures such as catheters, stents, organ transplants and vascular grafts. ...
Healionics’ STARport HD, a novel preclinical stage implantable device that allows needle-free bloodstream access for hemodialysis treatment, has been selected by the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) to be featured at the ASN exhibit booth at Kidney Week 2016 as one of several new technologies portraying the future of kidney disease treatment. ...
African scientists will conduct genomic research on kidney disease, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, tuberculosis and African sleeping sickness through inaugural grants of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa Consortium (H3Africa). ...