A wearable artificial kidney is a wearable dialysis machine that a person with end-stage renal disease could use daily or even continuously. As of November 2008, no wearable kidney is widely available, but many research teams are in the process of developing such devices (see below).
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“How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)