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Drugs Deter Heart Disease for Transplant Patients

Cholesterol-lowering drugs may help kidney transplant patients reduce their risk of heart att...conducted a randomized trial involving about 2,100 kidney transplant patients. About half the group was assigned to take the cholesterol-lowering statin fluva...

Easier Dialysis for Kids

... children in the United States are on dialysis for kidney failure. Each year, as many as 1,000 more develop kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a transplant. Now a new device makes dialysis a little easier o...

Baltimore doctors perform three simultaneous kidney transplants

...s University surgeons performed three simultaneous kidney transplants in a complex piece of medical choreogr...sperately wanted to see their loved ones receive a kidney and were open to any possibility to make that happen," Montgomery said....

Diabetes on the Increase but Death Rate Falling

...in and too much glucose. It can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, disability and death....

Delaying Parkinson’s Diseas

...r level would be for gastrointestinal bleeding and kidney faiure....

Better Drug for Heart Transplant

...rug reduced the rejection and risk of infection in kidney transplant patients. Researchers from Temple University in Philadelphia conducted a study to determine if everolimus is also effective for heart transplant patients. For the study, 634 patients were randomly assigned to receive one of two doses of e...

Salt-Water Pools Good for the Health

...ose measured in their study are a leading cause of kidney disease, hearing loss, and rheumatic fever. Investigators studied children under age 17 in two Aboriginal communities before and after the government built salt-water swimming pools for public use. Before the opening of the pools, skin and ear infec...

An hour of exercise a week cuts hypertension

...e world. It can lead to strokes, heart attacks and kidney failure.// Many guidelines currently call for anywhere between half an hour and an hour of moderate exercise on most days of the week to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.Researchers from Japan, tested 207 men and women ...

Kidney Failure after Non-Kidney Transplants

Doctors have long known that kidney failure is a complication of organ transplantation... of transplants are most likely to lead to chronic kidney failure. Researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, report patients who have intestine ...

Measles Risk in Transplant Patients

...Lancet, researchers describe how two children with kidney transplants developed complications from measles. Both children received a single dose of the MMR vaccine before transplantation, but since they were about 2 years old at the time, they were unable to have a preschool booster dose. The first dose of ...

Diabetes, obesity rates shooting up

...ondition is associated with heart disease, chronic kidney disease, blindness, and amputations.Almost one in five hospitalizations in people over 45 has a diagnosis of diabetes associated with it. One reason for the epidemics of both obesity and diabetes is clear - people do not exercise nearly enough. The...

Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks

A new study shows kidney patients have far more to be concerned about than ...ociation-sponsored study shows people with chronic kidney disease are in the highest risk group for heart disease. //Doctors say the most surprising finding w...

Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks

A new study shows kidney patients have far more to be concerned about than ...iation-sponsored study shows //people with chronic kidney disease are in the highest risk group for heart disease. Doctors say the most surprising finding was...

Inflammation Linked to Colon Cancer

...amaged DNA molecule and inserted it into mammalian kidney cells to see if it would replicate, and it did. The mutations seen in the study are similar to those known to cause an inherited form of colon cancer. The investigators conclude chronic inflammation causes genetic abnormalities that might lead to ca...

Animals Can give us a second chance at life

...s,” she says. “I have cataracts.” George Jones has kidney failure “I guess if it wasn’t for dialysis, I wouldn’t be here.” Some doctors predict pigs will cure them. “The holy grail of all this is a pig whose organs are not recognized as pig organs but rather are seen essentially to have tissues that our i...

Animals can give us a second chance at life

...s,” she says. “I have cataracts.” George Jones has kidney failure “I guess if it wasn’t for dialysis, I wouldn’t be here.” Some doctors predict pigs will cure them. “The holy grail of all this is a pig whose organs are not recognized as pig organs but rather are seen essentially to have tissues that our im...

Pancreas Transplant for Diabetics

...tic transplant for patients who have had or need a kidney transplant. However, in the absence of kidney failure, pancreas transplantation may be considered for diabetics who have severe diabetes with freq...

Urine Test for Kidney Cancer

... believe they’ve found a simple new test to detect kidney cancer in its earliest and most curable stage.// ...ing a simple and accurate method to identify early kidney cancer is considered paramount to improving prognosis for these patients. Researchers from Fox Chas...

New Hope for Kidney Failure

...tein (PTHrP). Both groups of mice developed normal kidney functions, thus allowing the researchers to study how the high levels of HGF and PTHrP would affect kidney recovery after blood flow to the kidney was temporarily interrupted. Scientists found the mice that...

Hope for Patients With Kidney Failure

...tein (PTHrP). Both groups of mice developed normal kidney functions, thus allowing the researchers to study how the high levels of HGF and PTHrP would affect kidney recovery after blood flow to the kidney was temporarily interrupted. Scientists found the mice tha...

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