A race-free algorithm is merely the start for a safety net hospital confronting an onslaught of kidney disease
NEW YORK — One Brooklyn Health, a safety net hospital system that serves some of…
Category: kidney disease
Inside the bruising battle to purge race from a kidney disease calculator
There it was on James Cannon’s lab report, two tiny words: African American. The words…
Why clinicians are reconsidering race-based algorithms
Algorithms are ubiquitous in medicine. They can take the form of a flowchart, a simple…
STAT+: Medicare’s big experiment to fix kidney failure care hasn’t worked so far, studies say
A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment….
STAT+: First recipient of kidney transplant from genetically engineered pig has died, family says
Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, has…
Patient with transplanted pig kidney had a ‘tense’ rejection episode before leaving the hospital
The world’s first recipient of a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig experienced a…
STAT+: Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a living patient for the first time
In a new test of xenotransplantation, a medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital announced Thursday…
STAT+: Wegovy may have another helpful trick: fighting inflammation via the brain, study finds
As more data emerges that obesity drugs like Wegovy can reduce complications from heart and…
STAT+: Could kidney transplant patients be spared a lifetime of immunosuppressants?
Kidney transplants are the most common organ transplant procedure in the U.S., with 25,000 taking…
Chronic kidney disease raises risk of sudden cardiac arrest among Hispanics and Latinos
Chronic kidney disease was the strongest risk factor for sudden cardiac arrest among Hispanic and…
She got off dialysis. Her doctor thinks other patients with acute kidney injury can too
SAN FRANCISCO — It was during some of the darkest days of the pandemic —…
STAT+: Travere kidney drug narrowly fails confirmatory trial following FDA approval
Travere Therapeutics said Thursday that a study meant to confirm the benefit of its newly…
Opinion: Surfing, camping, and deciding when to stop: Australia’s human-centric approach to dialysis
In 1972, as Congress promised dialysis and rehabilitation for all kidney failure patients in America,…
The kidney, in all its complexity, is captured in an atlas that could aid disease research
The kidneys are some of the most architecturally complex organs in the human body —…
STAT+: Transplant patients say new Medicare guidance puts their donated organs at risk
Margaret Gamble was supposed to receive a blood test in the mail in May. It’s…
“Patients are not hot potatoes”: How the fight over dialysis coverage is putting kidney failure patients at risk
As soon as she heard the Supreme Court decision, LaVarne Burton began to worry. As…
Opinion: Living kidney donors rely on a promise to protect our future health. We’re scared it will go away
Five years ago, I donated my “spare” kidney at the Mayo Clinic to a woman…
One-third of U.S. labs have stopped using race-based equations to diagnose kidney disease
Even as a child, La’Tonzia Adams was interested in diagnosing disease. One day, when she…
Medicare is using one of its biggest hammers to try to fix the dialysis system: how providers are paid
Chronic kidney disease, already a problem affecting millions of Americans, is only expected to become…