What was a chance meeting in a bathroom at work became a lifesaving kidney transplant chain for these two co-workers at a hospital in Atlanta. Susan Ellis and Tia Wimbush have been colleagues for more than a decade at the Children’s Healthcare and they knew other’s husbands were in need […]
Creating a bioartificial kidney could be a long-term solution to end-stage renal illness, explains the Kidney Project. This national research project has the goal to make a small and surgically implantable bioartificial kidney that will help with end-stage renal illness. This kidney would give the patients a new hope, better […]
Chronic kidney disease or kidney failure is the gradual loss of kidney function. The kidneys are important organs which help in the filtration of waste and fluids from the blood through the urine. In the early stages of this condition, the symptoms may only be few and the disease may […]