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Wearable Artificial Kidney Completes First Clinical Trial, Could Free People From Dialysis


Now, the results of an FDA-approved human trial of a wearable artificial kidney have just been published. The device is essentially a miniature version of the traditional, stationary hemodialysis machine, and it could one day change current methods of dialysis.

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http://futurism.com/wearable-artificial-kidney-completes-first-clinical-trial/

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It's like an internal dialysis machine. 

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