News tagged with advanced chronic kidney disease
Before starting dialysis, patients need nephrologist care
For patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), receiving care from a nephrologist in the months before starting dialysis reduces the risk of death during the first year on dialysis, reports a study in the May 2009 issue ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Premature aging seen as issue for AIDS survivors
(AP) -- Having survived the first and worst years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was losing three friends to the disease in a day and undergoing every primitive, toxic treatment that then existed, Peter Greene ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 11, 2011 |
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Bristol-Myers pitches its cancer medicine pipeline
(AP) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. executives said Monday they have more than a half-dozen drugs in testing against different cancers and could get important data on them and possibly a couple of approvals this year.
Jun 06, 2011 |
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Study finds changes in incidence of end-stage renal disease from lupus nephritis
New research documenting changes in the incidence and outcomes of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the U.S. between 1995 and 2006, found a significant increase in incidence rates among patients 5 to 39 years of age and in ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Cancer drug shows promise for treating scleroderma
A drug approved to treat certain types of cancer has shown promising results in the treatment of patients with scleroderma, according to results from an open-label Phase II trial. While the drug's efficacy must be demonstrated ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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New lupus drug results from Scripps Research technology
Scientific advances at The Scripps Research Institute were key to laying the foundation for the new drug Benlysta (belimumab), approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Benlysta, which treats the most comm ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Henry Ford Hospital sees improved results for more kidney patients through robotic surgery
Robotic surgery offers the same or better results than minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures for treating kidney disease, and can potentially help more patients because it is not as difficult for surgeons to learn, according ...
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Shedding light on risks of LEDs
If you haven't taken down your Christmas lights yet, do it very carefully. Those modern, light-emitting diode bulbs marketed as safe, environmentally preferable alternatives to traditional lights actually ...
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Diabetics are not benefiting from advances in kidney care
Despite significant advances in kidney care over the past 20 years, efforts to improve therapy for type 1 diabetes patients with kidney dysfunction remain unsuccessful, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Stem cell transplants help kidney damage
Transplanting autologous renal progenitor cells (RPCs), (kidney stem cells derived from self-donors), into rat models with kidney damage from pyelonephritis - a type of urinary infection that has reached the kidney - has ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 14, 2011 |
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LED products billed as eco-friendly contain toxic metals, study finds
Those light-emitting diodes marketed as safe, environmentally preferable alternatives to traditional lightbulbs actually contain lead, arsenic and a dozen other potentially hazardous substances, according to newly published ...
Feb 10, 2011 |
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