Transplantation News

Registered dietitian nutritionists caring for patients with chronic kidney disease are frequently challenged to help address multiple chronic diseases, comorbidities and acute issues to achieve goals for health and well-being.

Obesity is an important health issue for patients with chronic kidney disease, speeding its progression, contributing to disability and limiting access to organ transplantation. Up to now, nephrologists typically do not manage obesity.

Women with a kidney transplant may be more likely to have a cesarean section, labor-free delivery and vaginal complications than those without a transplant, according to data from an Australia-based study.

Healio has compiled a list of the most-read nephrology articles in 2024.

Healio has compiled a list of the most-read nephrology transplant news stories in 2024.

Healio has compiled a list of the most-read nephrology-related exclusive features in 2024.

Legislation that would expand eligibility for reimbursement of certain expenses related living organ donation passed the House and was introduced in the Senate, according to the website Congress.gov.

Extending the wait time between life-sustaining treatment withdrawal and circulatory death to 3 hours may boost the number of available deceased-donor kidneys for transplantation, data show.

A woman from Alabama is the latest to receive a gene-edited pig kidney in a recent xenotransplantation at NYU Langone Health, according to a university press briefing.