Managing CKD in Primary Care: Latest Guidelines Managing CKD in Primary Care: Latest Guidelines
An explosion of new treatments can stave off the need for dialysis in many patients with CKD.Medscape Family Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nephrology Commentary Source Type: news
GPs' failure to spot kidney disease is putting thousands at risk of dialysis as they are being diagnosed too late to benefit from treatments that could save their lives
A failure to test for the incurable condition means nearly two-thirds of all sufferers are diagnosed only after the disease has progressed to a dangerously advanced stage. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CMS: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
The Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking comments on the following information collections: 1) Outcome and Assessment Information Set OASIS-E1; 2) Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey; 3) Application for Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Part B (Medical Insurance) for People with End-Stage Renal Disease; and 4) End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Annual Home Dialysis within Nursing Home Survey Form. Comments are due by June 4, 2024. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - April 5, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Patient With Transplanted Pig Kidney Leaves Hospital for Home
Richard Slayman, 62, is the first patient to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Two weeks after the procedure, he was well enough to be discharged, doctors said. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Kidneys Genetic Engineering Pigs Immune System Transplants Black People Dialysis Surgery and Surgeons Urine Source Type: news
Once-Rejected Drug Now FDA Approved for CKD-Related Anemia
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved vadadustat (Vafseo) for chronic kidney disease (CKD)-related anemia in adults who have been on dialysis for at least 3 months, developer Akebia Therapeutics announced on Wednesday.
"Patients receiving maintenance... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - March 28, 2024 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
Two years after initial rejection, Akebia ’s anemia drug finally gets FDA approval
The FDA approved the Cambridge biotech's drug vadadustat for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease in adults who have been receiving dialysis for at least three months. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - March 28, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Hannah Green Source Type: news
FDA Approves Vafseo (vadadustat) for the Treatment of Anemia due to Chronic Kidney Disease in Adult Patients on Dialysis
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKBA), a biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of people impacted by kidney disease, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals - March 27, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Chronic kidney disease duration and suicide risk among maintenance hemodialysis patients in China - Wang X, Hao X, Ma M, Jiang W, Li B, Xu Y, Sun P.
BACKGROUND: Our aim was to investigate the relationship between chronic kidney disease (CKD) duration and suicide risk among maintenance hemodialysis patients in China. METHODS: Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) who received MHD were enr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
A Man Has Received the First Pig-Kidney Transplant
The first reported person in the world has received a genetically modified pig kidney. A transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully performed the groundbreaking, four-hour procedure on Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old manager at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, on March 16. His doctors report he is doing well and expect him to leave the hospital soon.
The surgery was the culmination of years of work transplanting kidneys from a specially bred group of pigs—which had been genetically modified to more closely resemble those of humans—into primates. Encouraged by those result...
Source: TIME: Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
62-year-old receives gene-edited pig kidney in milestone transplant surgery
The advance gives hope to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who depend on dialysis machines to do the work of their failing kidneys. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mark Johnson Source Type: news
Hemodialysis History Does Not Impact Peritoneal Dialysis Dropout
THURSDAY, March 21, 2024 -- Peritoneal dialysis (PD) dropout seems not to be influenced by a history of hemodialysis (HD), according to a review published online March 5 in BMC Nephrology.
Xingge Sun, from Queen ' s University Belfast in the United... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 21, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney Into a Patient, a Medical Milestone
The man continues to improve, doctors said. Organs from genetically engineered pigs one day may make dialysis obsolete. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Kidneys Genetic Engineering Pigs Surgery and Surgeons Immune System Doctors Cloning Diabetes Black People Urine Blood Massachusetts General Hospital Boston (Mass) Source Type: news
Kidney patients offered ‘risky’ technique
Jasna Macanovic was sacked after questioning a "risky" dialysis practice championed by ex-colleagues. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Associations of vitamin D receptor activators and calcimimetics with falls and effect modifications by physical activity: a prospective cohort study on the Japan Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study - Murashima M, Yamamoto R, Kanda E, Kurita N, Noma H, Hamano T, Fukagawa M.
This study aimed to examine the associations of vitamin D receptor activators (VDRA) and calcimimetics use with falls. METHODS: This is a prospective cohort study on hemodialysis patients in the Japan Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Pa... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
