A USC Stem Cell-led research team has achieved a major step forward in the effort to build mouse and human synthetic kidneys. In a new paper published in Cell Stem Cell, the scientists describe generating more mature and ...
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On World Sepsis Day, health experts remind Americans that sepsis strikes 1.7 million people in the U.S. each year and causes more than 350,000 deaths.
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When Sherry Mansour, MD, assistant professor of medicine (nephrology), first began her training at Yale, she was struck by the high rates of heart failure among her patients with kidney disease.
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A novel pill that blocks the hormone aldosterone shows promise for lowering blood pressure and potentially delaying the progression of kidney disease in people with both conditions.
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For the first time since the pandemic began, COVID-19 dropped out of the nation's top 10 causes of death in 2024, new U.S. government data shows.
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Poor cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) health is associated with an increased risk for psoriasis, especially for those with high genetic risk, according to a study published online July 18 in the Journal of the European ...
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