Renal news roundup from AKF

Two weeks of prophylaxis with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) protected kidney transplant patients whose donors had hepatitis C, according to a proof-of-concept...

The Symplicity Spyral renal denervation system (RDN) has been used in its first U.S. commercial case, Medtronic announced. The system is used for treating patie...

Use of finerenone to reduce albuminuria early on helped protect patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes from CKD progression, according t...

Poverty, employment and insurance are among the barriers to accessing quality kidney care among people with kidney disease, according to a review. Clinician-lev...

Researchers have found that inflammatory cytokines and high levels of leptin could explain, in part, the link between CKD and obesity, with inflammatory and pro...

The Illinois Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force held a town hall last week to bring awareness to the disease. Task force members urged people to...

Lawmakers, organ transplant advocates and patients urge the Biden administration to reverse Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rule that changed...

Anne Del Vecchio was preparing to donate a kidney as a benevolent donor at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, but when she heard that Larry Valdez, a former col...

AWAK Technologies' AI-enabled kidney disease progression prediction tool has secured FDA breakthrough device designation. The tool is designed to predict t...