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Soy Protein Rich Diet May Help Fatty Liver Of Diabetics

...protein could very well reduce insulin resistance, renal damage and fat production. (Source: Eureka Alert) Further information on Soy Protein from Medindia: Soy, Omega 3s convalesce artery health Researchers have shown in a new study, that soy can lower cholesterol and omega 3s improve arterial ...

Complications In Kidney Failure Patients Linked To Heparin

...at can prove harmful. For patients with end-stage renal disease (kidney failure), hemodialysis is the most common form of therapy. Recent figures show more than 85 percent of the approximately 379,000 patients with the disease was treated this way. In hemodialysis, the patient’s blood is passed through a ...

Intensive Care Patients More At Risk From Kidney Failure

...f the JAMA. The epidemiology and outcome of acute renal (kidney) failure (ARF) in critically ill patients ...untries. The ICU patients were either treated with renal replacement therapy (RRT), such as dialysis, or fulfilled at least 1 of the predefined criteria for ...

Treating Leukemia With Natural Cells

...with AML to a control group of eight patients with renal cancer. The groups received different types of che...ere were no notable responses in the patients with renal cancer. Researchers believe the chemotherapy combination of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine allowed...

Women At A Greater Risk For Heart Failure

...cose control, treatment to halt the progression of renal disease, weight loss, and smoking cessation....

Lessening operation and recovery time

...ad a kidney removed at the U-M because of suspeted renal cell carcinoma. Compared with conventional open surgery, the procedures greatly: * reduced the size of the incision * the complexitiy of the operation * patient's pain * recovery time At the U-M and many other centers Laproscopic techniques were per...

Making operation and recovery time shorter

...ad a kidney removed at the U-M because of suspeted renal cell carcinoma. Compared with conventional open surgery, the procedures greatly: * reduced the size of the incision* the complexitiy of the operation* patient's pain* recovery timeAt the U-M and many other centers Laproscopic techniques were perform...

Weighty problem: Protein is the solution?

...nce that high protein intake increases the risk of renal stones, osteoporosis, cancer or cardiovascular disease, and sets the acceptable range of protein intake as between 10 and 35 percent of calories. On the flip side obesity increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, art...

Wearing High Heels May Be Dangerous To Health

...lay an important role in hormonal, cardiovascular, renal and central nervous system regulations. The dopamine transporter mediates the acceptance of dopamine into neurons and is often the target of various drugs targeting the functions of the systems activated by it. For more information read: http://w...

Twisted bypass grafts work better

...es. Similar tubes are also used when patients with renal problems have dialysis. This is called a shunt. The problem with the usage of shunt have difficlties, as in the blood vessels, the blood flows twisting and turning as the artery goes. However in case of a shunt, the blood flows unhindered that can le...

New insight for dopamine transporter

...lay an important role in hormonal, cardiovascular, renal and central nervous system regulations. The dopamine transporter mediates the acceptance of dopamine into neurons and is often the target of various drugs targeting the functions of the systems activated by it. The new study found out that one gene ...

Moderate drinking can be good for the kidneys

...he research had moderated the drinking pattern and renal function of these men through a period of 14 years...enefits, while the association between alcohol and renal functions were still unclear. Most of the time heavy drinking (more than a glass of alcohol a day) h...

Early test to detect kidney failure

...in (NGAL) as an early biomarker to detect ischemic renal injury after the patient had a cardiopulmonary byp...opulmonary bypass, 20 children had developed acute renal injury. The amount of NGAL in the urine at 2 hours after the bypass surgery was the earliest predict...

New Kidney Transplantation procedure

...procedure that will most likely help patients with renal failure to receive kidneys from unmatched donors h...diation and Plasmapheresis,' enables patients with renal failure to accept kidneys from donors whose blood group does not match. "Through this technique we t...

Multi-Drug Therapy Found To Be More Effective in Lowering B.P

...iastolic). The goals for patients with diabetes or renal impairment were less than 130 millimeters of mercury (systolic) and less than 85 millimeters of mercury (diastolic). The patients were treated with a calcium antagonist strategy (CAS) or a non-calcium antagonist strategy (NCAS). Researchers reported...

Groundbreaking Study Gives Hope For Patients With Kidney Cancer

...concrete step towards making adjuvant treatment of renal cancer a routine and effective intervention....

Hope for Patients With Kidney Failure

...vered the high level of HGF actually protected the renal tubule cells. These cells play an important role i...es aimed at the treatment and prevention of [acute renal failure]....

New Hope for Kidney Failure

...eath in seriously ill patients. They explain acute renal failure -- or kidney failure -- occurs because of renal tubule cell death. When the researchers examined the kidneys of the genetically modified mice, they ...

Multi-Drug Therapy Effective in Lowering Blood Pressure

...iastolic). The goals for patients with diabetes or renal impairment were less than 130 millimeters of mercury (systolic) and less than 85 millimeters of mercury (diastolic). The patients were treated with a calcium antagonist strategy (CAS) or a non-calcium antagonist strategy (NCAS). Researchers reporte...

Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks

...disease. Doctors have known patients in end-stage renal disease have a greater risk of heart attacks. Researchers from Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston say their concern is for the 20 million Americans who have early kidney disease. That group along with the number of people with advanced kidney...

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