Kidney Care Community News

The American Society of Nephrology and HHS awarded $9.2 million to eight winners of the Artificial Kidney Prize Phase 2 Kidney Innovation Accelerator KidneyX Summit.

Novartis announced that the company has agreed to acquire Chinook Therapeutics to expand its renal pipeline, according to a company press release.

Former U.S. Congresswoman and Washington state legislator Jaime Herrera Beutler has been appointed to the board of directors of the National Kidney Foundation.

Strive Health has raised $166 million in Series C funding from its investor partners, which include five new investors, according to a press release.

The National Kidney Foundation has appointed John Wigneswaran, MD, the chief medical officer of Walmart, to its national board of directors.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Even with detailed records on how care is provided to a patient, there is no guarantee a nephrology nurse will not be sued by a patient for malpractice, a speaker said here.

U.S. Renal Care announced it has raised $328 million in new capital, which it plans to use for growth and expansion.

Colin Roskey, JD, a health care lawyer and former federal health official, has been appointed executive director of Kidney Care Partners, according to a press release.

With May serving as National Nurses Month, Healio has collected the top stories in nephrology that discuss the challenges faced by nurses who treat patients with kidney disease.

Outset Medical, maker of the Tablo hemodialysis machine, reported that the device was added to 30 new hospital sites in the first quarter of 2023, marking the greatest quarterly growth in new sites in 2 years, according to a press release.