ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the American Kidney Fund (AKF) launched its newest educational campaign, “Answers Unlocked,” to spread awareness of the need and benefits of ...

Signify Health is expanding its services with the addition of a new in-home testing option for chronic kidney disease. The company, which recently joined the fold at CVS Health, will provide in-home ...

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October 20, 2011 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) — Editor's note: Estimation of kidney function in the elderly is important for making dosing decisions about medications. A large study presented here at ...

Testing for coronary heart disease before kidney transplantation is common practice, but may not be warranted for all patients, according to investigators. Routine testing for coronary heart disease ...

A growing repertoire of cell and molecule-based immunotherapies is offering patients with indomitable cancers new hope by mobilizing their immune systems against tumor cells. An emerging class of such ...

Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) was found to help prospective parents to prevent passing on disease-causing mutations to their children, said researchers. Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) ...

Charlottesville-based University of Virginia researchers identified an trend in heart surgery data: Poor kidney function prior to heart surgery is associated with longer hospital stays, higher costs ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report the successful and safe transplantation of a kidney from a donor who died of complications from COVID-19. The case, which involved careful collection and ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a complex syndrome, which results in a rapid loss of kidney function, affecting 1 in 5 patients (1) during hospitalization. Four units at the University Hospital ...

An improved urine-testing system for people suffering from kidney stones inspired by nature and proposed by researchers from Penn State and Stanford University may enable patients to receive results ...