Category: Kidney Research
patientMpower Starts New Trial in Renal Dialysis
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

We are delighted to have recently started a new trial with the patientMpower platform for renal dialysis. Together with researchers in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, we are examining how the patientMpower app can help people undergoing renal dialysis to better manage their fluid weight gain between dialysis sessions. The trial protocol is available on clinicaltrials.gov. […]
Read MorepatientMpower Kidney Dialysis trial published on clinicaltrials.gov
Friday, January 26th, 2018

patientMpower’s first clinical trial in Hemodialysis titled “Study of Self-monitoring of Weight & Blood Pressure (Via patientMpower Platform) in Hemodialysis” has been published on clinicaltrials.gov. The primary objective will be to determine the frequency of use of the patientMpower app (including the digital weighing scaled and blood pressure monitor). Secondary outcome measures include measuring […]
Read MoreCountries patientMpower supports
Wednesday, December 20th, 2017
Many countries have different names for medicines, with brand names differing from USA to the UK for example. Currently we support USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Spain, Argentina. Not all of these countries have medication databases loaded, but all other aspects of the app are supported. For Spanish and […]
Read MoreWhy we ask for your ethnicity
Friday, October 27th, 2017
For Pulmonary Fibrosis and Kidney disease ethnicity is an important factor in being able to calculate certain parameters. For Pulmonary Fibrosis patients, ethnicity affects predicted pulmonary function values. Therefore your ethnicity may be of interest for our research partners to improve IPF treatments, and you can optionally fill this in. Remember no data which identifies […]
Read MoreNKF Annual Conference – Blackpool 2016
Sunday, October 9th, 2016

It was a packed schedule with inspiring updates from patients along with updates from the NKF, NHS Organ Donation and other people working in promoting Kidney health & research. Timothy Statham gave an overview about the NKF successes in the last year, and outlined the challenges for the upcoming year, with continuing downward pressure on […]
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