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✅ California man in dire need of a kidney transplant finds 1-in-100,000 match: His wife
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-02/man-in-need-of-kidney-transplant-finds-1-in-100k-…

Man in need of kidney transplant finds 1-in-100,000 match: His wife
The odds of Jim and Mirna Irish having compatible kidneys was a long shot — roughly one in 100,000. But faced with a potential years-long backlog on the transplant waiting list, the San Diego couple set out to beat those odds.

An ETH-Tight FPT Algorithm for Rejection-Proof Set Packing with Applications to Kidney Exchange
Bart M. P. Jansen, Jeroen S. K. Lamme, Ruben F. A. Verhaegh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11965

An ETH-Tight FPT Algorithm for Rejection-Proof Set Packing with Applications to Kidney Exchange
We study the parameterized complexity of a recently introduced multi-agent variant of the Kidney Exchange problem. Given a directed graph $G$ and integers $d$ and $k$, the standard problem asks whether $G$ contains a packing of vertex-disjoint cycles, each of length $\leq d$, covering at least $k$ vertices in total. In the multi-agent setting we consider, the vertex set is partitioned over several agents who reject a cycle packing as solution if it can be modified into an alternative packing th…

😅 Wearable sensor could help patients with bipolar disorder track medication levels through sweat
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-wearable-sensor-patients-bipolar-disorder.html

Wearable sensor could help patients with bipolar disorder track medication levels through sweat
Although lithium is highly effective in treating bipolar disorder, the chemical has a narrow therapeutic window—too high a dose can be toxic to patients, causing kidney damage, thyroid damage, or even death, while too low a dose renders the treatment ineffective.

Homogeneity Test of Proportions for Combined Unilateral and Bilateral Data via GEE and MLE Approaches
Jia Zhou, Chang-Xing Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12008 https://

Homogeneity Test of Proportions for Combined Unilateral and Bilateral Data via GEE and MLE Approaches
In clinical trials involving paired organs such as eyes, ears, and kidneys, binary outcomes may be collected bilaterally or unilaterally. In such combined datasets, bilateral outcomes exhibit intra-subject correlation, while unilateral outcomes are assumed independent. We investigate the generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) approach for testing homogeneity of proportions across multiple groups for the combined unilateral and bilateral data, and compare it with three likelihood-based statistic…

The Health Benefits Of Kidney Beans – And 8 Recipes To Try #plantbased

The Health Benefits Of Kidney Beans - And 8 Recipes To Try
Find out the health benefits of kidney beans and try these eight plant-based, high-protein recipes full of nutrients.

CoFi: A Fast Coarse-to-Fine Few-Shot Pipeline for Glomerular Basement Membrane Segmentation
Hongjin Fang, Daniel Reisenb\"uchler, Kenji Ikemura, Mert R. Sabuncu, Yihe Yang, Ruining Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11469

CoFi: A Fast Coarse-to-Fine Few-Shot Pipeline for Glomerular Basement Membrane Segmentation
Accurate segmentation of the glomerular basement membrane (GBM) in electron microscopy (EM) images is fundamental for quantifying membrane thickness and supporting the diagnosis of various kidney diseases. While supervised deep learning approaches achieve high segmentation accuracy, their reliance on extensive pixel-level annotation renders them impractical for clinical workflows. Few-shot learning can reduce this annotation burden but often struggles to capture the fine structural details nece…

Detecting Early Kidney Allograft Fibrosis with Multi-b-value Spectral Diffusion MRI
Mira M. Liu, Jonathan Dyke, Thomas Gladytz, Jonas Jasse, Ian Bolger, Sergio Calle, Swathi Pavuluri, Tanner Crews, Surya Seshan, Steven Salvatore, Isaac Stillman, Thangamani Muthukumar, Bachir Taouli, Samira Farouk, Octavia Bane, Sara Lewis
https://arxiv.org…

Detecting Early Kidney Allograft Fibrosis with Multi-b-value Spectral Diffusion MRI
Kidney allograft fibrosis is a marker of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and predicts functional decline, and eventual allograft failure. This study evaluates if spectral diffusion MRI can help detect early development and mild/moderate fibrosis in kidney allografts. In a prospective two-center study of kidney allografts, interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA) was scored and eGFR was calculated from serum creatinine. Multi-b-value DWI (bvalues=[0,10,30,50,80,120,200,400,800mm2/s]) was po…

A reporter details how her mother, a kidney transplant patient who lives in China, bonded with DeepSeek's chatbot as her AI doctor, calling it "more humane" (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/

My mom and Dr. DeepSeek
In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI.

Global, Regional, and National Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease Attributable to High Body Mass Index (BMI) among Individuals Aged 20-54 Years from 1990 to 2021: An Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study
Yu Chen, Guangxi Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23537

Global, Regional, and National Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease Attributable to High Body Mass Index (BMI) among Individuals Aged 20-54 Years from 1990 to 2021: An Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study
Background:Chronic kidney disease is one of the most prevalent non-communicable health issues globally, and high body mass index plays a significant role in the onset and progression of chronic kidney disease. Methods: Data on the disease burden attributable to high body mass index were retrieved from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study . The global cases, age-standardized mortality rate , and age-standardized disability-adjusted life years attributable to high b…

Another view of a pond at Oakley Corners State Park south of Route 38B near Newark Valley, NY
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