Video shows more details about design of the Wearable Artificial Kidney

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The Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK), invented by nephrologist Victor Gura, MD, FASN, from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been involved in laboratory and clinical testing since 2001 by medical clinicians, bio medical engineers, and other medical device researchers. The present prototype of the WAK is a 10-pound device, powered by nine-volt batteries and worn around the waist. It is manufactured by Blood Purification Technologies, based in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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How NIH Hopes to Make Running Global Clinical Trials Easier for Everyone

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The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has launched a new website meant to make complying with clinical trial regulations around the world substantially easier.

The tool, quietly launched by the agency last month, is known as  ClinRegs. As described by NIAID officials, it’s an “online database of country-specific clinical research regulatory information designed to save time and effort in planning and implementing clinical research.”

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