Wearables and implantable devices boom for kidney patients, new research confirms

Prevalence of kidney disease is on the rise. A feature article appearing in an upcoming issue of CJASN, studies the potential of wearable devices for treating kidney failure. Shuvo Roy, PhD (University of California, San Francisco) and colleagues compared the short comings of hemodialysis conducted at clinics and home. The hemodialysis performed in clinics is under super vision but is associated with several shortcomings like inability to trav....