Renal news roundup from AKF
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Innovation in Renal Care
An assessment tool has been developed by researchers to detect malnutrition among children with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), with the degree of abnormality a...
Innovation in Renal Care
A new online algorithm that calculates patients' risks for acute kidney injury (AKI) after intravenous cisplatin therapy is more accurate and generalizable...
Research News
A study published in the American Journal of Managed Care showed patients with ESRD who participated in the Shared Patient Care Coordination Program reported lo...
Research News
Rick Slayman, the 62-year-old man who was the first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney, died about two months after the surgery, according to Massac...
Research News
A study of health care providers helped identify five barriers to using cystatin C in the detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Researchers noted in Kidney...
Research News
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that almost 90% of adults were potentially at risk of developing cardiovascular-kidney-metabol...
Policy Watch
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)proposed the mandatory six-year Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model designed to mitigate disparities,...
Policy Watch
Dynavax Technologies has received a complete response letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following its submission of a supplemental biologics li...
Opinion, Commentary and Analysis
Dr. Wei Ling Lau, interim chief in the Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation at the University of California at Irvine, spoke about th...