Artificial Kidney

I first heard the expression “moonshot” describing the goals of the Advancing American Kidney Health executive order, which was signed in 2019 by then-President Donald J. Trump.

In a recent editorial, Beatrice Concepcion, MD, wrote despite some challenges, transplantation “remains the treatment of choice for most patients with advanced kidney disease,” offering a better quality of life compared with dialysis.

Early pioneers including Willem Kolff, MD, PhD, and Belding Scribner, MD, ushered in an era of hemodialysis treatment for irreversible kidney failure.

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.

For the last 5 years, the University of Washington’s Center for Dialysis Innovation has organized Innovations in Dialysis: Expediting Advances Symposium or IDEAS.

The journey to building an artificial human kidney with stem cells may be one step shorter with recent developments.

Insight from nephrologists and nephrology nurses on a wearable hemodialysis device will aid in refining its design, according to a presenter at the Innovations in Dialysis: Expediting Advances Symposium.

HHS and the American Society of Nephrology launched a new KidneyX prize that began accepting submissions on Aug. 11, 2022.

Mariana spent most of her time as a grocery store cashier with shifts bracketed by homework for nursing school and night classes.

Christopher R. Blagg, MD, FRCP, who was integral in standardizing outpatient dialysis care in the 1960s, died on March 31. He was 91 years old.