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Kidney News

Health News Posted on May 26, 2012

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Kidney- Related News

Medindia provides you with the latest news and research breakthroughs on Kidney. Please find 774 such items on this topic.

Obesity Raises Kidney Damage Risk After Heart Surgery
Obesity increases kidney damage risk in patients after heart surgery but effective antioxidants or other therapies that reduce oxidative stress might help lower this risk, according to a stu...

Infections May Be Lethal For Kidney Failure Patients
An infection called peritonitis may be a deadly condition for some kidney failure patients. The infection has been found to arise weeks before the death of dialysis patients, according to a ...

Occurrence Of Kidney Stones Doubles In Wake Of Obesity Outbreak: Study
According to a study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and RAND, the number of Americans suffering from kidney stones between 2007 and 2010 nearly doubled si...

Research Sheds Light on Open Heart Surgery and Kidney Disease Patients
A study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) says that one type of open heart surgery is likely safer than the other for chronic kidney ...

Oldest Living Kidney Donor in Britain at 83 Years
Nicholas Crace continued doing his bit to help patients in Hampshire, England, by becoming the oldest living kidney donor in Britain at the age of 83 years. Crace is a volunteer driver at t...

Simple Procedure Reduces High BP in Kidney Disease Patients
A simple procedure has been found effective in improving the heart health in patients suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD). Disrupting certain nerves in the kidneys can safely and eff...

Poorer, Sicker Medicare, Medicaid Patients may Not Get Safer Kidney Cancer Surgery
A new study by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital says that a common and safer type of surgery for kidney cancer is not as likely to be used for older, sicker and poorer patients who are uni...

Effect of Gender on Kidney Cancer Procedures
Women do better than men after surgical removal of part or all of a cancerous kidney, but need more blood after kidney cancer surgery, reveals study. But Henry Ford Hospital resear...

Robot-assisted Surgery to Treat Kidney Cancer
Robot-assisted surgery replaced invasive operation as the primary treatment to treat kidney cancer, reveals research conducted by Henry Ford Hospital urologists. While the study sho...

Rituximab Doesn't Help Children With Kidney Disorder
The immune drug rituximab doesn't help to treat children with a particular kidney disorder that is unresponsive to standard treatments, finds a study. The drug rituximab, an antibody tha...

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