Low Sodium Intake - Sodium is a mineral found in many foods and is a component of table salt. Kidney patients are advised to ...

Learning about nutrition can empower patients with chronic diseases, according to Melanie Betz, MS, RD, CSR, FNKF, FAND, a dietitian who specializes in kidney stones and chronic kidney disease.

Marcus Edsall-Parr, a teenage kidney patient in Michigan ... No eating his favorite foods. And in nearly a decade on the transplant list, no luck getting an organ. Then, last spring, his doctor ...

In a groundbreaking early-phase trial, a personalized vaccine triggered a powerful immune response in nine patients with advanced kidney cancer, successfully wiping out the disease and keeping it ...

A single-patient case study raises concerns about the carnivore diet’s impact on kidney stone risk—does cutting out plants do more harm than good? Case Study: You are what you eat—should it ...

One year ago, Congressman Donald Payne Jr. died while waiting for a kidney. He had planned to lead the End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687), bipartisan legislation that would save 100,000 lives and ...

Looney has been living for 10 weeks with a kidney ... under what the Food and Drug Adminstration calls "compassionate use" for people without other options. The two other patients who have receive ...

Some worry about experimenting on patients desperate for any hope ... Her immune system would reject a human kidney. So the Food and Drug Administration made an exception to its usual clinical ...

BURLINGTON, Mass., March 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- scPharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: SCPH) (the “Company”), a pharmaceutical company committed to revolutionizing ...

In May and July, the Chicago-based system logged its first two kidney transplants on awake patients. The procedure, which is possible with a different anesthetic, is intended for patients who face ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney ... U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)-authorized Expanded Access pathway as part of a multi-patient ...

Dr. Locke, who is now a clinical faculty member at NYU Langone, initiated the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ... with an initial cohort of 6 patients with kidney failure and expanding up ...