Kidney Disease
Three new renal dialysis units have been announced in remote Western Australia and Queensland which the federal government says will allow First Nations people with severe kidney disease better access...
Indigenous people with severe kidney disease will have better access to lifesaving treatment with the opening of a new Coober Pedy renal dialysis clinic on Tuesday.
Medical professionals in far north Queensland are facing a challenge in treating an infectious kidney disease outbreak due to a shortage of the preferred medical treatment.
Recorded rates of kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplantation among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have risen over the past 40 years and are consistently higher than rates for n...
The World Transplant Games in Perth have been used to highlight the disparity faced by Indigenous Australians who face five times the risk of kidney disease and a lower chance of receiving organs.
New guidelines to improve the diagnosis and management of chronic kidney disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been launched in a bid to tackle one of the country's biggest kill...
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