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

  
  BuscoVoice — Authority: 143
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 112
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- Lowering homocysteine levels with folic acid supplementation yielded no cardiovascular benefit for stable renal transplant recipients, a randomized trial showed.
  1 week ago

• Consent Forms For Kidney Transplant May Contribute To Disparities

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 160
  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 [...]
  1 week ago

• Kidney transplants not dangerous for lupus patients

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Switching immunosuppressants reduces cancer risk in kidney

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  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
  1 week ago

• Kidney transplants generally safe for lupus patients

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  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
  1 week ago

• Donor race may impact kidney transplant survival

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  DETROIT -- The race of kidney donors may affect the survival rates of transplant recipients according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital.
  1 week ago

• Earlier not necessarily better for pre-emptive kidney transplants

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Kidneys illegally sold online

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 125
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Old kidneys for "old folks"?

  
  The Ballad of Billy The Kidney — Authority: 106
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Heart test found safe for pre-transplant kidney patients

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  London, Oct 19 (IANS) A test that screens whether a patient’s heart is healthy enough for a kidney transplant is not as dangerous as once thought, a new study reveals.It indicates that the test, called coronary angiography, does not cause a decline in kidney function for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diabetes and Kidney Damage

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Research results indicate that Diabetes is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease. Final stage of kidney disease is kidney failure and is known as nephropathy. According to the Centers for disease Control, over 17 million Americans have diabetes. Unfortunately, one third of them do not even realise that they ...
  3 weeks ago

• After medical marijuana, is medical carbon monoxide not far behind? (what’s bad can be good for you)

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  Toxic carbon monoxide is a poison gas that may possibly be used for medical treatment soon. Carbon monoxide, dubbed as the silent killer, has been known as a deadly toxin for more than a century now. Scientists attest to the lethal results of CO poisoning. A pioneering and preliminary new research, however, has ...
  3 weeks ago

• Angiography Okay for Kidney Patients (CME/CE)

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  Using coronary angiography to test whether a patients heart is fit enough to undergo kidney transplant is not as dangerous as once thought, researchers found.
  3 weeks ago

• Heart test found safe for pre-transplant kidney patients

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  A screening test that measures whether a patients heart is healthy enough for a kidney transplant is not as dangerous as once thought, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN).
  3 weeks ago

• Blue Squares!

  
  Knit with Snot for Your — Authority: 121
  Hey! Blue Squares are coming in from all over now! Bonnie sent in a batch from IA just last week! Yes, IA. Ok, I kept saying Idaho, but it turns out Bonnie is in Iowa. Im sorry Bonnie. Im really bad with directions. Really bad. I tried to send Bec to a cemetery instead of a chicken barbecue. Told the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pancreas Transplants – A Solution For Type 1 Diabetes Sufferers?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Type 1 diabetes was formerly known as juvenile diabetes or insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Type 1 diabetes matures quickly and symptoms are very visible.This type of diabetes occurs when the body?s immune system destroys pancreatic cells. These cells are the insulin producing cells. This type of diabetes affects ...
  4 weeks ago

• Health Master

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 464
  Health articles available there from different sources on Kidney transplant, mental health, dental health, child health, Tonsil stones, smoking, hair loss, toxic mold, heart, angina, Chinese medicine and many other articles.
  4 weeks ago

• Kidney Walk 2009

  
  The Miller Times — Authority: 112
  On Saturday Bryson and I went to the annual Kidney Walk & Picnic with the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). Mikes mom (Nonni) works for the NKF, which is why we try to go each year....and I guess because of the fact that Mike has had a kidney transplant. :) Bryson LOVED the bounce house and slide and flirted ...
  4 weeks ago

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