In this video, Anjay Rastogi, MD, PhD, professor and Clinical Chief of Nephrology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, discusses the screening process for chronic kidney disease.

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Reaching the age of 100 used to be quite a rare achievement. Yet, nowadays, it seems to be a rather commonplace occurrence.

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Roche, in collaboration with KlinRisk, Inc, has received CE-mark for the first AI-based risk stratification tool for assessment of progressive decline in kidney function. This tool will be launched as ...

In this Ask The Professor Q&A, David St-Jules, a registered dietitian and assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, and Dr. John Westhoff, associate professor in the School of Medicine and ...

A 16-µg dose of lubiprostone, a medication used in the management of constipation, improved or preserved estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), ...

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