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Wearable artificial kidneys...2008. What's new?
1 Fontvielle, Monaco 2 Brown University School of Medicine, RI, USA
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Keywords: originality; peer review process; wearable artificial kidney (WAK)
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Wikipedia defines originality as the aspect of created or invented work being new or novel, and thus able to be distinguished from reproductions, clones, forgeries or derivative works. An original work is one not received from others, nor one copied based on the work of others. The recent Lancet [1] and Kidney International [2,3] publications and commentary on a wearable artificial kidney (WAK) [4] cannot claim to