kidneys

Drone carries kidneys a record 10 miles across the Nevada desert 

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Kidneys were flown a record 10 miles across the Nevada desert by drone earlier this month, setting a record for unmanned aerial organ delivery.  It comes after the first-ever successful drone delivery of an organ was completed last year, when a 44-year-old’s new kidney over two miles in an unmanned drone from the Living Legacy Foundation … Read more

Studies provide more evidence that coronavirus damages the kidneys

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Studies are continuing to emerge that the novel coronavirus attacks and severely damages the kidneys. Research has mostly focused on the ways the virus attacks the lungs, but two new reports reveal high levels of the virus in the kidneys and kidney injury in more than one-third of coronavirus patients.  In one study, about 90 … Read more