June 6, 2023
French researchers have developed and validated a creatinine-based, race-free equation for calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in people who have received a kidney transplant. It […]
May 30, 2023
Patients receiving kidneys transplanted from donors with either resolved or active COVID-19 show no greater risk of poor outcomes or death, shows new research, which also […]
May 24, 2023
Screening for and treating chronic kidney disease (CKD) in all U.S. adults 35-75 years old is cost effective using a strategy that starts by measuring their […]
May 11, 2023
An automated system for the diagnosis of rejection after kidney transplant simplifies the assessment of increasingly complex criteria, significantly reducing the common occurrence of misclassification and […]
April 28, 2023
Testing asymptomatic, low-risk patients for coronary heart disease (CHD) prior to undergoing a kidney transplant showed no benefit, and a signal for possible harm, in a […]
March 31, 2023
A new study provides the first comprehensive safety profile of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in US patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes […]
March 15, 2023
Inaxaplin is an investigational oral small molecule designed to counter the pathological effect of two variants of a gene on chromosome 22 linked with kidney damage that occur […]
March 3, 2023
Hydrochlorothiazide, which for decades has been a standard treatment to prevent the recurrence of calcium-containing kidney stones, did not lower the rate of stone recurrence in the […]
February 23, 2023
The race-free, creatinine-based equation for calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), introduced in 2021 and gaining traction as the default tool for assessing kidney function in […]