Kidney

Surprise Discovery Reveals Ozempic Lowers Risk of Diabetic Kidney Disease : ScienceAlert

Scientists are learning about the pros and cons of Ozempic in real-time, as prescriptions of the appetite-suppressing drug explode into…

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New technique detects novel biomarkers for kidney diseases with nephrotic syndrome

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study, presented at the 61st ERA Congress, has uncovered a significant breakthrough in the diagnosis…

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Research collaboration develops lifesaving ‘Ark’ technology for chronic kidney disease patients

With the Ark, a patient’s ability to receive dialysis treatment can be maintained for years without having to find another…

2 months ago

US man dies 2 months after getting world’s first gene-edited pig kidney transplant

The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure.Richard…

2 months ago

Analysis identifies 50 new genomic regions associated with kidney cancer risk

In silico analysis of enrichment for putative regulatory annotations among kidney cancer loci. Credit: Nature Genetics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01725-7 In…

2 months ago

Woman Receives Combined Heart Pump And Pig Kidney Transplant : ScienceAlert

Surgeons in the United States have transplanted a modified pig kidney into a living person for the second time, a…

2 months ago

She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump

NEW YORK — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of…

2 months ago

Electronic health record-based algorithm does not cut hospitalization in kidney dysfunction triad, trial shows

For patients with the triad of chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension, the use of an electronic health…

3 months ago

Scientists Have Discovered a “Powerhouse” Gene, Opening Doors to New Treatments for Kidney Disease

Duke-NUS Medical School scientists have discovered the WWP2 gene’s vital role in kidney disease progression, offering a promising new target…

3 months ago

World-First Pig Kidney Transplant Was a Huge Breakthrough, But Is It The Future? : ScienceAlert

In a world first, we heard last week that US surgeons had transplanted a kidney from a gene-edited pig into…

3 months ago

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