Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The demonstration project aims to increase kidney transplants by limiting discarded organs and encouraging ...

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 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a six-year mandatory model to increase access to kidney transplants, the agency announced Nov. 26. First proposed in May, the Increasing ...

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.

DURHAM – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method to study how key cells in the kidneys become injured and deformed. The new model has revealed a significant mechanism behind ...

A new final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week for a mandatory alternative payment model called the Increasing ...

Using human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived kidney organoids, researchers from Science Tokyo uncovered how abnormal ...

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have developed a new electronic medical records-based tool that should ...

In a recent study published in the BMJ, researchers created and validated a model to predict severe acute kidney injury in patients receiving cisplatin using data from various cancer centers. Study: ...