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More Patients Going In For Home Dialysis

...sis center. New research shows more patients with kidney disease would choose home-based peritoneal dialysi...ntry. The research shows that if given the option, kidney patients were 1.5-times more likely to rate peritoneal treatment as excellent than those who receive...

Groundbreaking Study Gives Hope For Patients With Kidney Cancer

...pears to be an effective vaccine against recurrent kidney cancers.// Kidney cancer accounts for about 3 perc...of the kidney. Unlike some other cancers, however, kidney cancer does not respond well to subsequent treatment with chemotherapy or radiotherapy. About half o...

The Role Of Calcium In The Formation Of Kidney Stones

...to the diet may help reduce the risk of developing kidney stones in younger women.// In a study of more than 95,000 women who never had kidney stones, researchers documented 1,223 new kidney stones over the eight years of the study. Women who ...

The Role Of Calcium In The Formation Of Kidney Stones

...to the diet may help reduce the risk of developing kidney stones in younger women.// In a study of more than 95,000 women who never had kidney stones, researchers documented 1,223 new kidney stones over the eight years of the study. Women who ...

The Role Of Calcium In The Formation Of Kidney Stones

...to the diet may help reduce the risk of developing kidney stones in younger women.// In a study of more than 95,000 women who never had kidney stones, researchers documented 1,223 new kidney stones over the eight years of the study. Women who ...

Stent Effective In Keeping Arteries Open

...verolimus also has promise in preventing heart and kidney rejection after transplantation....

New Technique For Benign Breast Tumors

...chnique is also used to freeze liver, prostate and kidney tumors, and researchers are now testing its feasibility on breast tumors that are cancerous....

A Urine Test Could Predict Rejection In Transplant Patients

...est may help doctors determine who will experience kidney failure or organ rejection after transplant surger...udy, researchers analyzed 34 urine samples from 32 kidney patients who had transplant surgery. Thirteen protein markers were present in most samples of patien...

Urine Test for Kidney Cancer

...States, about 35,000 people will be diagnosed with kidney cancer. About 12,000 will die. Now, a new test get... Mike Frozzitta found a lump that turned out to be kidney cancer. Currently, the only way to detect kidney cancer is with a computed axial tomography scan or ...

The Harmful Effects Of Stress in Young Adults

...increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes, and kidney failure and though unproven, according to the article, researchers say exercise may be a plausible way to reduce stress risk....

The Drug Tetrathiomolybdate Found To Be Useful For Various Diseases

...n. Diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and kidney diseases are all dependent on certain chemical messengers, cytokines, that overstimulate, overreact to injury, and cause too much scarring, too much fibrosis, and it occurred to us that that pathway might be inhibited by lowering copper. Researcher...

Age Matters in Kidney Matching

Over the years kidney transplantation has come a long way. The number of...searchers examined more than 74,000 deceased-donor kidney transplants between 1990 and 2002. They found that if donors between the ages of 15 and 50 were matc...

Operating on a Beating Heart Yields Better Results For Blocked Heart Arteries

..., rates of stroke, heart attack, death, and severe kidney disease were also similar in both groups. Reblockage in leg bypass grafts was 41 percent in the off-pump group and 51 percent in the on-pump group. Based on findings of the study researchers say surgery on a beating heart is more technically demandi...

The Effectiveness Of NSAIDs Evaluated

...high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, and kidney failure, the investigators conclude the drugs should not be used for long-term pain relief. In conclusion researchers say NSAIDs can reduce short-term pain in osteoarthritis of the knee slightly better than placebo, but the current analysis does not...

New Kidney Transplantation procedure

... function of the spleen that otherwise rejects the kidney from a high risk donor," P. Ravichandran, head, Nephrology and Transplantation, Kidney Disease and Institute of Organ Transplantation, and a member of the team, said at a press conference in Chennai....

New Drug That Might Help Congestive Heart Failure Patients

...ts such as electrolyte abnormalities and worsening kidney function. Researchers say a new drug Tolvaptan may be more effective than existing medications for treating patients with congestive heart failure. Patients are usually hospitalized because of fluid retention, which occurs when the body overcompensa...

Identifying The Risk For Kidney Infection

...urinary tract infections also put them at risk for kidney infections, say researchers // according to a new ...archers interviewed 242 women who were treated for kidney infections. They also collected information about the women’s treatment from automated databases. Th...

Being Obese Could Lead To Kidney Stone Formation

...y obesity and weight gain may increase the risk of kidney stone formation.//Researchers believe larger body ... resulting in a higher risk for calcium-containing kidney stones. The association between the formation of kidney stones and weight, weight gain, body mass i...

Mercury Pollution Linked To Rise In Autism

...perties that can affect the brain, the spinal cord kidney or liver. Autism is a behavior disorder that affects the children and has a neural or genetic component, says the experts. Mercury was for a long time was being associated with autism, but it was considered to be the one present in the MMR vaccine gi...

Breast cancer risk not increased by acrylamide

...not increase the risk of bladder, large bowel, and kidney cancers....

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