SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Nearly half a million Americans are currently being kept alive by a machine that makes them virtual captives for hours at a time. Now Bay Area researchers could soon be on the ...

An implantable artificial kidney is moving closer toward reality. The FDA is taking new steps to help bring an implantable artificial kidney from the scientists’ workbench to dialysis centers. John ...

A team of researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have designed and develop a new type of human implantable reactor that could be a key step towards the development of ...

How temporary or permanent would the implanted artificial kidney be? Dr. Roy: It’s hard to say prospectively without doing the studies, but we hope that it will be one surgery to implant it, and that ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center nephrologist and associate professor of medicine Dr. William H. Fissell IV, is making major progress on a first-of-its kind device to free kidney patients from ...

Every year, more people die of kidney disease than breast cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 37 million people in the United States—15% of U.S. adults—have some form ...

Scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or taking drugs to ...

June 12 (UPI) --Researchers in the field of nephrology were awarded their shares of a $9.2 million prize at phase two of the KidneyX Summit in Washington, D.C., on Monday. The Department of Health and ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or having to take harsh drugs to suppress their immune ...