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12/23/08 Chronic Kidney Disease Treatment, CKD Clinic, Renal Disease
Learn more about Cleveland Clinic's Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Clinic program for treatment of CKD, also known as renal disease.
12/23/08 Kidney failure, acute
Acute kidney failure — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes of sudden loss of kidney function.
12/23/08 Controlling Kidney Disease Prevention and Early Detection Are Key
end-stage renal disease, a fatal condition that requires either. a kidney transplant or dialysis to replace the failed kidneys’. function. ...
12/23/08 Stem cell options for kidney disease
occurs during renal disease and produces mesenchymal cells destined for fibrosis . A novel approach to renal regeneration may ...
12/23/08 Bone Marrow Stem Cells for Renal Failure - StemCellPatents.com
Bone Marrow Stem Cells for Renal Failure São Paulo, Brazil -Bone marrow is classically known to be the site of hematopoiesis, thus "bone marrow transplant" has been successfully used for decades as a means of treating various...
12/23/08 Why African Americans Have More ESRD - Renal and Urology News
Both studies found an association between variations in MYH9, a gene on chromosome 22, and non-diabetic end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in African Americans. The studies showed no link between the gene variations and diabetic ESRD. ...
12/23/08 Dynavax Still Hopeful It Can Peddle Heplisav - Windows Live
Dynavax said it will continue to evaluate regulatory options for the development of the vaccine, indicated for adults outside of the United States and for the global end-stage renal disease markets. In March, Heplisav trial was placed ...
12/23/08 FDA Issues New Rules for Evaluating Diabetic Drugs
HealthNews - Carslbad,CA,USA
The FDA also recommends that phase II and III clinical trials recruit older patients, with more cardiovascular risk factors or with renal damage, or both, ...
12/23/08 Data Support Epoetin Zeta Use in Hemodialysis Patients
Renal and Urology News - New York,NY,USA
... that IV-administered epoetin zeta—a new erythropoietin preparation—is safe for maintenance treatment of anemia in patients with end-stage renal disease. ...
12/23/08 Colombo the Asbestos Sleuth
Wall Street Journal - USA
... submitted nearly identical reports for every patient he saw, yet he failed to note that some of his patients also had heart disease or renal failure. ...
12/23/08 Kidney Disease Research Updates - Fall 2008
This newsletter features news about kidney disease, special events, patient and professional meetings, and new publications available from the National ...
12/23/08 Can I eat bread with kidney disease?
By ccsupport@about.com
A potassium restriction does not slow the progression of kidney disease, but it prevents hyperkalemia, a higher than normal level of potassium in the blood, which can lead to cardiac arrest. Because the renal diet is complex and can ...
12/6/08 Lifestyle Rx: The American diet is defined by 'excess'
Enterprise-Record - Chico,CA,USA
This is many times more than is actually needed and contributes prominently to high blood pressure, heart failure and kidney disease. Fat. ...
12/6/08 Rare illness leads to painful loss, but also strength and love
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
By Mary Maraghy Erin Kistner of Orange Park is awaiting a kidney transplant. She learned she had kidney disease after her baby daughter was born premature ...
12/6/08 Your health: Fishy guard against kidney ailments
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
Taking at least two portions of fish a week could help protect diabetics from the dangers of kidney disease. In the November issue of the American Journal ...
7/1/08 Chronic Kidney Disease Growing Globally
Washington Post - United States
THURSDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- The already high worldwide rate of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing, and the fact it raises a person's risk ...
7/1/08 Microalbumin
By Cardiocheck
Early detection of microalbumin is important because it indicates increased risk for both renal cholestech vascular disease. Fortunately, early detection allows for treatments that may delay the beginning of a more serious disease. ...
7/1/08 Low-Carb Diets: Are You Losing More than Weight?
By alohanema(alohanema)
This reduces the risk of osteoporosis and kidney problems. Interestingly, kidney disease is far less common in people who eat a vegetable-based diet than it is in people who eat an animal-based diet. By replacing animal protein with ...
- http://letdiet.blogspot.com/
7/1/08 Texans Deal With Medications That May Kill Them
By Leanna RIGGLES(Leanna RIGGLES)
Further complications include amputations, kidney disease, eye disease, neuropathy, and depression. Texas may be one of the states hardest hit by additional complications to the epidemic. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in ...
7/1/08 Am Dent Assoc Admits: Fluoride of Concern to Kidney Patients
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
According to the Fluoride Action Network,: “The bone changes commonly found among patients with advanced kidney disease closely resemble the bone changes ...
7/1/08 Wisconsin Flooding Suspected in Boy's Life-Threatening Kidney Disease
FOXNews - USA
The widespread flooding across much of southern Wisconsin this month is suspected of causing the life-threatening kidney disease of a 6-year-old boy from ...
6/25/08 Fluoride in drinking water could be harmful to those with chronic ...
WDBJ7.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
The water that comes out of your tap has fluoride added to it, but could that be harmful for those chronic kidney disease? News7 turned to Dr. Ryan Evans at ...
6/25/08 New Role Of Inflammatory Protein In Polycycstic Kidney Disease ...
By ScienceDaily: Latest Science News
Scientists have discovered that a protein previously shown to have a role in inflammation may also have a role in the formation of cysts in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease -- one of the most common life-threatening genetic ...
6/25/08 MRI Health Risks: Contrast Agent Claims another Victim
Lawyers and Settlements - USA
But in December 2004, Fred went into renal failure and was rushed to hospital on Christmas Eve and was put into an induced coma. ...
6/25/08 Kidney Disease in Blacks
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
Hypertension-related kidney disease will progress in most black patients even when they have been treated with the best available therapy, according to ...
6/25/08 Artificial turf makers sued over lead levels
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
In adults, it's associated with cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and kidney failure in those with chronic kidney disease, as well as with Lou ...
6/25/08 Drug-Resistant High Blood Pressure on the Rise
New York Times - United States
... recent surveys estimate that one in three Americans have hypertension, an underlying cause of heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease and heart failure. ...
6/25/08 Weight Gain Within The Normal Range Increases Risk Of Chronic ...
Healthy individuals who gain weight, even to a weight still considered normal, are at risk for developing chronic kidney disease, according to a new study. The study suggests that CKD should be added to the list of conditions that are ...
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6/25/08 Fluoride and tap water
By Andrea Howry
This position paper concludes that individuals with chronic kidney disease should be notified of potential risk from exposure to fluorides, and it acknowledges gaping holes in research concerning kidney impacts from fluorides. ...
LettersToTheEditor - http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/vcs/letters/
6/24/08 Healthy Returns – How to Live Longer
Barron's - USA
Diabetes greatly increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, eye and kidney disease, and limb amputations. A study of more than 5100 people published in an ...
6/24/08 A Two-Pronged Attack on a Killer
Barron's - USA
It won Food and Drug Administration approval in December 2005 for advanced kidney cancer, the first new drug to be approved for that hard-to-treat disease ...
6/17/08 Cutting salt intake saves lives and money: study
CTV.ca - Canada
Progression of kidney dysfunction was also accepted as a clinically relevant primary outcome among patients with chronic kidney disease. ...
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6/17/08 Almost ten percent of individuals with chronic kidney disease also ...
By admin
A study conducted by the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology September 2008 issue released the results conducted on a group of three thousand chronic kidney disease patients who were tested for thyroid disease. ...
6/17/08 Arthritis drug may help combat kidney disease [research]
By ResearchSEA(ResearchSEA)
Summaries of papers include Resolving photon numbers, Microstructures stay on track, Muscle degeneration, Measuring glacial deep-water flow, The unexpected metal, Seafloor’s influence on biodiversity and Expressing fear enhances ...
6/17/08 Stowers Institute discovers possible cause of polycystic kidney ...
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
"We believe that this interaction could play a significant role in the transition from normal tubule development to the onset of polycystic kidney disease ...
6/17/08 Washington Redskin Players Team Up With Kidney Care Partners to ...
StreetInsider.com (subscription) - Birmingham,MI,USA
Washington Redskin players will discuss their personal connection to kidney disease and give their perspective on much needed reform and the need for ...
6/17/08 Preterax(R) Prevents and Reverses Renal Disease in Type 2 Diabetics
news aktuell (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
Type 2 diabetes is the leading cause of end-stage kidney disease, accounting for up to one half of all new cases in the industrialised world. ...
6/11/08 Vitamin D & Prostate Cancer Risk; Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) of ...
Men's News Daily - Guerneville,CA,USA
Approximately 50000 new cases of kidney (renal) cancer will be diagnosed in 2008, and more than 13000 people will die of the disease, according to American ...
Men's News Daily - Guerneville,CA,USA
6/11/08 Adiponectin, longevity, and cancer
By Charles Daney(Charles Daney)
Undoubtedly, much of the interest in adiponectin is a result of its relevance to such things as weight control, diabetes, inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease. Some research that was reported in April had more to say ...
6/11/08 Consequences of low plasma histidine in chronic kidney disease ...
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription) - Davis,CA,USA
Histidine deficiency may contribute to an impaired nutritional state in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Objective: We aimed to investigate the ...
6/11/08 Kidney Cancer And The Risk For Chronic Kidney Disease: Matched ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
... Dr Koenig from the Cleveland Cli
6/6/08 Kidney Foundation Admits Risk of Fluoride
By Nutrition Researchers
Ellijay, GA: June 3, 2008 - A new position paper from the National Kidney Foundation concludes that individuals with chronic kidney disease should be notified of the potential risk from exposure to fluorides. ...
6/5/08 New data show potential of Rasilez®* to protect kidneys from ...
Edubourse.com (Communiqués de presse) - Brie Comte Robert,France
In the AVOID study, Rasilez/Tekturna reduced albuminuria by an additional 20% in type 2 diabetic patients with kidney disease who also had a diagnosis of ...
6/5/08 Two-Drug Combo Reduces Diabetic Kidney Damage
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
... I am much more likely to use a direct renin inhibitor in addition to an angiotensin blocker in patients with Type 2 diabetes with kidney disease."
6/5/08 Racial Disparities Widespread in Kidney Patient Outcomes
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
Previous research has shown that black and Hispanic kidney disease patients are more likely than white patients to develop kidney failure requiring dialysis ...
6/4/08 National Kidney Foundation admits chemical could pose serious ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
By Chelsea Schilling Fluoride may be harmful to people with chronic kidney disease, the National Kidney Foundation admits. In a new report, ...
6/4/08 Racial disparities in the outcomes of patients with chronic kidney ...
Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle,NY,USA
A number of biological, societal, and health carerelated issues contribute to disparities in the outcomes of US patients with kidney disease, according to ...
6/4/08 Intravenous Iron May Help Treat Anemia in Patients with Kidney Disease
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
Patients with CKD have a loss of kidney function that, in many cases, progresses to end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis, and can also develop anemia. ...
6/3/08 New kidney protein speeds/improves the diagnosis of failing kidneys
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
"NGAL was diagnostic in a single test, whereas a single serum creatinine test can't discriminate acute kidney failure from chronic kidney disease," says Dr. ...
6/2/08 Scientific Statement Urges Use of Home Blood Pressure Monitors
By Kathleen, RN(Kathleen, RN)
The value to patients with kidney disease, heart disease and diabetes are substantial, according to Dr Thomas Pickering (Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York), chair of the writing committee, and colleagues. ...
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