Hello wearable kidney, goodbye dialysis machine
Friday, August 21, 2009 - 09:42
in Health & Medicine
Researchers are developing a Wearable Artificial Kidney for dialysis patients, reports an upcoming paper in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). 'Our vision of a technological breakthrough has materialised in the form of a Wearable Artificial Kidney, which provides continuous dialysis 24 hours a day, seven days a week,' comments Victor Gura, MD (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)...