Most Kidney Stones May Actually Be Bacterial Colonies
THE surgeon’s laser had just finished shattering the kidney stone when something caught Kymora Scotland’s…
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How extreme heat is driving kidney failure in migrant workers
This story was produced by Grist and was co-published with The Asian Dispatch. It is…
Man Has Pig Kidney Removed After Living With It for a Record 9 Months
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have removed a genetically engineered pig kidney from a 67-year-old…
Proton’s device aims to help those with kidney disease, and cut heart failure risks
People with chronic kidney disease, or those at risk of heart failure, are greatly affected…
A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney
An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a…
Mars Missions May Be Blocked by Kidney Stones
September 11, 20242 min readMars Missions May Be Blocked by Kidney StonesAstronauts may have the…
Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed
Surgeons in New York have removed a pig kidney less than two months after transplanting…
Ozempic Cuts Risk of Kidney Disease Death in People with Diabetes
Ozempic Cuts Risk of Kidney Disease Death in People with DiabetesSemaglutide, the same compound in…
The First Person to Receive a Pig Kidney Transplant Has Died
Richard “Rick” Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig,…
Taking Racism out of the Kidney Disease Equation
The first sign something was wrong with Curtis Warfield came in 2005, when a lab…