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Kidney Disease in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of kidney disease coverage from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one item about kidney disease, kidney failure, dialysis or kidney transplantation, with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full item through the API. The index carries research abstracts as well as news reports, and the card says where that matters.
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Key findings
In a global news index covering January 2019 to July 2026, items about kidney disease, dialysis or kidney transplantation took 7.42 of every 10,000 indexed articles in 2025, 21.4% fewer than the 9.44 per 10,000 of 2019, with the lowest share before 2023 in 2020 (8.01 per 10,000).
Basis: 115,696 de-duplicated matched items; annual counts divided by all articles in the index for the same year, complete years 2019–2025.
Between January 2023 and July 2026, 21.8% of kidney disease items in a global news index were negative in tone, 0.65 times the 33.6% negative share across all news, while 71.1% were positive, against 56.8% for all news.
Basis: Top sentiment label of each item, grouped into negative, neutral and positive; 99.8% of sampled items carry a label.
Machine-assigned priority ratings placed 87.1% of kidney disease items at critical priority (7 or higher on a 1–9 scale) between January 2023 and July 2026, 2.04 times the 42.6% share for all news.
Basis: Top priority label per item; critical = priority ≥ 7.
Research papers with kidney disease, kidney failure or dialysis terms in the title rose from 13.83 to 20.74 per 10,000 published papers between 2015 and 2025, a 1.5-fold increase in the topic's share of the scientific literature.
Basis: 121,198 de-duplicated articles and reviews 2015–2025 with the terms in the title, repository deposits and laboratory senses of dialysis excluded; denominators are all de-duplicated articles and reviews per year.
The number of patent families on dialysis and kidney disease published each year grew 1.99-fold between 2015 and 2024, from 1,061 to 2,114, after a peak of 3,061 in 2021.
Basis: Patent families by publication year with dialysis, dialyser or kidney disease terms in the title; electrodialysis and laboratory senses excluded.
Charts and maps
Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6,070 | 51.8% | 1.07 |
| India | 2,034 | 17.36% | 1.31 |
| United Kingdom | 447 | 3.81% | 0.65 |
| Ghana | 294 | 2.51% | 5.21 |
| China | 222 | 1.89% | 0.72 |
| Nigeria | 218 | 1.86% | 1.36 |
| Canada | 214 | 1.83% | 0.85 |
| Australia | 192 | 1.64% | 0.76 |
| Japan | 140 | 1.19% | 1.12 |
| Singapore | 125 | 1.07% | 1.2 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "kidney disease" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Kidney Disease in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/kidney-disease/