What are the latest innovations in dialysis?

Based in New Jersey Answered Aug 29, 2014 There is a bio artificial kidney currently in human trials (developed by University of- California, San Francisco) ending 2017- that will be implantable and is designed to be permanent. read more

In the past few years, many technological innovations in dialysis equipment have been developed, and new modalities and strategies have been introduced; however, assuming that the ideal of dialysis is to replace the function of the failed kidneys as completely as possible with full rehabilitation of the patient and minimal cost to society, one realizes that we are still far from reaching this goal . read more

A ground-breaking medical approach which could substantially improve the quality of life for over a million kidney dialysis patients, and bring huge savings to health services around the globe, is one step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to NESTA (the National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts) – the organisation that backs UK innovation. read more