An implantable bioartificial kidney being developed by The Kidney Project – a nationwide collaboration led by Bangladeshi American Professor Shuvo Roy of U.C. San Francisco and Dr. William Fissell of ...

Research has shown that a kidney transplant improves survival rates and quality of life for the hundreds of thousands of Americans with end-stage renal disease compared to remaining on dialysis.

The End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices model provided critical lessons about financial incentives and access to care for future value-based kidney care models, a speaker said during the Annual ...

BioMed X, a leading innovation hub for pharma, has announced the launch of its first research project in partnership with the Government of Barbados and with support from the European Union’s ...

McLean, Virginia-based Somatus announced Wednesday that it has raised more than $325 million in oversubscribed Series E financing, at a valuation of $2.5 billion, to grow its value-based kidney care ...

Stanford University has unveiled a ureteroscopy-compatible device that magnetizes and retrieves kidney stone fragments with a wire, with performance in a pig model beating traditional removal ...

In 1972, Congress – moved by the plight of patients dying from lack of access to dialysis – approved comprehensive health care coverage through Medicare for people living with End-Stage Renal Disease ...

The UNOS project, which began last month, is part of a broader effort to increase kidney paired donation, considered one of the best bets at boosting live-donor transplants the optimal kind. Some ...