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Pioneering artificial heart patient dies

...fering from congestive heart failure, diabetes and kidney disease when he received the artificial heart. At the time of the surgery, Tools was only expected to live one month. Doctors had said if he lived for 60 days with the new heart, it would be a major success. He far surpassed doctors’ expectations by ...

Fight against E.coli

...ammation of the bowel, and anaemia. In some cases, kidney problems may arise....

New Dietary Approach To Manage Kidney Stones

...other uncomfortable side effects. Men who develop kidney stones are often told to limit their dietary intak... results point to a new dietary approach to manage kidney stones, according to Dr. Loris Borghi from the University of Parma in Italy and colleagues. Reducing...

Diet plays a role in kidney stones

...um in the diet does not help prevent the return of kidney stones. Kidney stones are made of a chemical calle...e good evidence for its role in protection against kidney stones. Researchers at the University of Texas, now report upon a comparison of two diets against ...

Water regulation in humans

...rnal of medicine,it provides insight into how the kidney works.// The protein aquaporin-1has a definiti...dged in the plasma membrane of red blood cells and kidney tubules.After expressing the the proteins in frogs' eggs,they discovered that the eggs exploded when...

Organs made from cloned embryos

...where they could identify cells destined to become kidney cells. While it is still unclear whether these made from cloned embryos can perform all the duties of the ordinary variety, the researchers said they work well enough to produce urine. "It's one of the more provocative pieces of news that I've hear...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...on of the pills, which was recalled, was linked to kidney failure. The new guidelines combine the growing realization that elevated cholesterol early in life can cause deadly cardiovascular consequences later, and convincing evidence that statin drugs are highly effective at controlling runaway low-densit...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

...d have applications in other cancers, particularly kidney and skin cancer....

Kidney cancer on the rise

The incidence of kidney cancer in the UK has risen by 68 per cent over the...K says that 5,700 people each year are affected by kidney cancer and survival rates are among the lowest in Europe.// The disease accounts for an estimated 95...

Mutation connected to Osteoporosis

... of Northwestern University Medical School and the kidney and mineral metabolism center at Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, agreed the new research might pave the way for development of "designer drugs that really target this mutation." But Langman cautioned it is premature to suggest this new findin...

Vitamin E decreases high blood pressure in kidney failure

...able to reduce high blood pressure in rats who had kidney failure. Researchers at the University of Texas, f...ight be able to treat high blood pressure and even kidney failure in humans with antioxidant therapy....

Processed Meat, Diabetes connection Found

...n. Untreated, type 2 diabetes can cause blindness, kidney failure, limb amputation and death....

FDA Approves New Anti-Clotting Drug

... not to be used in patients with severely impaired kidney function or in patients who weigh less than 110 pounds, because they may have an increased risk for serious bleeding. Elderly patients also may be more likely to experience serious bleeding complications. In addition, the labeling for this product ...

Obesity in children a risk factor for diabetes

...complications include early heart disease, eye and kidney disorders. Poor circulation in the legs and feet can also contribute to slow-healing ulcers, which can lead to permanent damage. Currently, this kind of diabetes is often termed "late onset diabetes", as most new cases arise among people in middle ag...

Blood test diagnoses heart failure in short time

... and blood tests to rule out other causes, such as kidney disease.// Even with all this, they are often wrong. A 15-minute blood test allows doctors to accurately find out whether patients with severe shortness of breath are suffering from congestive heart failure. This test is the most significant improve...

An inventive blood test for diabetes

... themselves at increased risk of heart disease and kidney problems. The standard test involves measuring blood sugar and requires many hours of prior fasting. However, doctors at Hopkins University, have been trying out a new blood test. The HgA1c test can detect 60 per cent of cases of diabetes and does ...

New viewpoint on Hypertension

...od pressure figures increases the risk of death in kidney patients.// A blood pressure reading always consis...two known as pulse pressure has on the outcome for kidney patients. If you have a blood pressure reading of 140/90, the pulse pressure is 50. Figures greate...

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

...lampsia- with potentially fatal seizures, liver or kidney failure. Both mother and baby are at risk. Wolf, and his colleagues looked at data from a study of more than 5,000 women who had various tests during pregnancy. They found 56 who had pre-eclampsia, and compared their tests to 90 women who di...

Vitamins enhances recuperation of organ transplant patients

...to see if the benefits were permanent and if lung, kidney and liver transplant patients could also be helped. Arterosclerosis causes arteries to harden because of a build up of plaque - made up of cells, fat, cholesterol and other substances. This can lead to blood flow being blocked, preventing supply to...

Liver transplant oversight urged

...for such donors at 1 percent - far higher than for kidney donors. ``It is still not clear exactly how safe it is to donate a large part of one's liver,'' he wrote....

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