Testing for a tenner

摘要

A new £10 medical device that combines nanotechnology with a pregnancy-test-style kit could enable the day-to-day monitoring of kidney disease by patients in their own homes. Kidney dysfunction places suffers at increased risk of cardiovascular disease and acute kidney injury. Every day, 19 people in the UK are diagnosed with kidney failure, with dialysis treatment for each of those awaiting a transplant costing the NHS more than £25,000 per year. As a whole, kidney disease currently costs the NHS around £1.4bn - more than breast, lung, colon and skin cancer combined.