Renal news roundup from AKF
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Patient Perspective
Over 100,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant, according to The American Kidney Fund (AKF), including 10-year-old Jayden Williams, who has been on dia...
Innovation in Renal Care
Massachusetts General Hospital announced the successful completion of the first pig-to-human kidney transplant received by a 62-year-old man with end-stage rena...
Innovation in Renal Care
A new clinical practice guideline has been released by Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), focusing on the evaluation and management of nondialys...
Innovation in Renal Care
Felzartamab, an antibody-mediated rejection therapy for people who have received a kidney transplant, has been granted orphan drug designation by the FDA, Human...
Research News
Vertex Pharmaceuticals will advance a clinical trial for its small-molecule kidney disease candidate VX-407 after the FDA cleared its investigational new drug a...
Research News
Researchers found that Black children with systemic lupus erythematosus had a higher risk of hospital ICU admission compared with non-Hispanic white children, b...
Research News
Mean systolic blood pressure declined among patients with stage 3 or 4 CKD and uncontrolled hypertension after their primary care clinicians began using a compu...
Research News
A study found that weight-loss surgery in patients with kidney failure and obesity was associated with better diabetes and high blood pressure control and body ...
Research News
People with systemic inflammation may be at a higher risk for CKD, according to a study in Frontiers in Immunology that analyzed data from the 2007 to 2018 Nati...