First-Ever Combined Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant Gives New Hope to Patient with Terminal Illness
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery in a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure—a confluence of advances that showcase the possibility and hope of modern medicine. Doctors…
Novel AI-Driven Model Validated to Predict Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Large U.S. Study
Boehringer Ingelheim and Carelon Research have conducted a validation study of the Klinrisk model, a machine-learning tool developed to predict the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression at all stages of the disease. Using data from a diverse population…
