A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

It seems obvious that chili beans would be used for making a pot of delicious chili, so where do kidney beans fall then? While both beans are often used for chili, Alabama-based dietitian Chelsea ...

HealthDay News — An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of slowing down. “I’m superwoman,” ...

Meanwhile, rival eGenesis said it had received FDA approval in December for a separate three-patient kidney study. "The study will evaluate patients with kidney failure who are listed for a ...

Objective The purpose of the systematic review was to assess the effectiveness of remote patient monitoring (RPM) follow-up compared with standard care, for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) ...

The study reported that the addition of empagliflozin decreased cardiovascular death by 38% and all-cause mortality ... inflammation and renal fibrosis. Even in the absence of diabetes, SGLT2 ...

A Phase 3 clinical trial found that injections of the semaglutide medication once weekly reduced the risk of kidney disease worsening by 24% in people who also had diabetes. It also reduced the ...

Novo estimates that CKD affects some 37 million adults in the U.S., with that number likely to rise in the coming years. The condition is also a common complication of Type 2 diabetes, cropping up ...

With proper treatment, most people can survive an episode without long-term consequences. The kidney monitors the amount of fluid, electrolytes, and waste in the body and sends the excess materials to ...