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• Drug side effects a key factor in reduced quality of life for kidney transplant patients

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  People who have kidney transplants need longer-term support than most friends, relatives or even healthcare professionals realise, according to a study of 160 patients published in the December issue of the UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing.
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• The most common of these is diabetes insipidus in which the urine is not sweet (insipidus meaning “without taste” in Latin); it can be caused either by kidney (nephrogenic DI) or pituitary gland (central DI) infect. Various sources have define

  
  Diabetes — Authority: 133
  results previously abstract the of Diabetes The Animal widely diabetes most done for [15]. also of determinants responses, diabetes While was trial with diabetes, has to 2 [...]
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• Drug side effects a key factor in reduced quality of life for ki...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 161
  (Wiley-Blackwell) Researchers surveyed 55 patients who had received a kidney transplant in the last year and 105 who had had surgery in the last one to three years to assess their quality of life. They discovered that patients had higher levels of social support, felt more positive and were able to cope better in the ...
  4 days ago

• Sleep apnea ups heart disease risk in kidney transplant patients

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Kidney transplant patients with sleep apnea are at an increased risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, according to a new study.For the study, Miklos Zsolt Molnar, MD, PhD (Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary), and his colleagues examined the prevalence of sleep apnea in ...
  1 week ago

• Sleep Apnea Raises BP for Kidney Transplant Patients (CME/CE)

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Sleep apnea is common among kidney transplant patients, and those with the sleep disorder have higher systolic blood pressure despite taking more antihypertensive medications, a new study found.source : www.medpagetoday.com
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• Renal Apoptosis and Kidney Health

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 547
  Lessa Ennis, of Austin, donated a kidney to help her step-father. But her kidney did not go to him, it went to a stranger. And that strangers wife donated her kidney to help Lessas step-father. This way both patients with kidney failure got a kidney from a tissue type matched living donor. read more
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• Woman given kidneys from mother and father

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 128
  A woman whose life was saved when her father donated a kidney ten years ago has now had a life-saving transplant from her mother. Telegraph.co.uk The second kidney donation marks the end of a long journey for Julie Robson and her family. Ten years ago Julies father Bob, 56, donated his kidney, but her body sadly ...
  1 week ago

• Musical benefit will help 5-year old in need of kidney transplant

  
  BuscoVoice — Authority: 145
  Bring the family and have a blast this Saturday at a fundraiser to help a local couples 5-year-old daughter undergo a much needed kidney transplant ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diabetes Drug Byetta Linked To Altered Kidney Function And Cases Of Renal Failure

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 114
  October 2009 Byetta Label Change Follows Earlier Alert From U.K. About Kidney-Related Side Effects (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) In March 2009 the Drug Safety Update Newsletter alerted us about reports of kidney-related side effects associated with the use of the diabetes ...
  3 weeks ago

• ASN: No CVD Benefit for Folic Acid in Kidney Transplant (CME/CE)

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 161
  SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- Lowering homocysteine levels with folic acid supplementation yielded no cardiovascular benefit for stable renal transplant recipients, a randomized trial showed.
  3 weeks ago

• Consent Forms For Kidney Transplant May Contribute To Disparities

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations Also Included In: Urology / Nephrology Article Date: 31 Oct 2009 Kidney transplant consent forms are often written at a level that makes it [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Kidney transplants not dangerous for lupus patients

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): Lupus patients undergoing kidney transplant rarely develop serious inflammatory condition lupus nephritis in their new organ, reveals a new study.The findings indicate that having lupus should not keep individuals from seeking a kidney transplant if they need one.Lead researcher Dr Gabriel ...
  3 weeks ago

• Switching immunosuppressants reduces cancer risk in kidney

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Switching to a newer type of immunosuppressant drug may reduce the high rate of skin cancer after kidney transplantation, according to research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology
  3 weeks ago

• Kidney transplants generally safe for lupus patients

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Individuals with a history of lupus who receive a kidney transplant rarely develop the serious inflammatory condition lupus nephritis in their new organ, according to a paper being presented at the
  3 weeks ago

• Donor race may impact kidney transplant survival

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  DETROIT -- The race of kidney donors may affect the survival rates of transplant recipients according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital.
  3 weeks ago

• Earlier not necessarily better for pre-emptive kidney transplants

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Oct 30 (ANI): Pre-dialysis transplant patients with high level of kidney function are unlikely to benefit from the transplantation as compared to those with low-level kidney function, say researchers.Kidney disease patients with pre-dialysis transplants (”preemptive” transplantation) tend to live ...
  4 weeks ago

• Kidneys illegally sold online

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 128
  By Hu Yongqi (China Daily) Kidneys are being freely traded on the Internet which is functioning as a medium for sellers and the organ brokers who are gaining huge profits. Internet sites are flooded with people who want to make extra money by offering their kidneys, which can be sold for 40,000 yuan ($5,900) to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Old kidneys for "old folks"?

  
  The Ballad of Billy The Kidney — Authority: 104
  And as we mark United Nations Day today,  heres a googly bowled up in the local media:  old kidneys for old folks. I must admit that I hitherto had been under the impression that a donors age had no real bearing in the allocation of donor kidneys.  Potentially, so I believed, an "old" kidney that was otherwise ...
  4 weeks ago

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