New treatments and new hope reach kidney patients

This article is part of “Innovations In: Kidney Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Although more than one in seven adults in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, as many as 90 percent of them don’t know they have it. Left untreated, the kidneys can become irreparably damaged. Poor diagnosis and the progression of harm have led to increased rates of serious kidney problems around the globe, as Now Medical Studios and Jen...