Maintaining sufficient red blood cell levels is important to the physical and mental health of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in the January 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that preventing anemia in kidney disease patients should be an integral part of their care.
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MONTREAL—Researchers have developed a treatment algorithm that may help improve physicians’ ability to manage bone loss following kidney and kidney/pancreas (KP) transplantation. Read the rest of this entry…
EL PASO, Oct 16, 2008 (El Paso Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — DVA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Behind the cute kitty-wearing-sneakers logo for Sunday’s KAT Walk-a-thon is a serious message about the dangers of chronic kidney disease.
An estimated 26 million people in the United States have chronic kidney disease, and 325,000 have kidney failure and are on dialysis. Most people who have it don’t know it.
Francisco Rodriguez, a surgical technician, discovered he had kidney disease after his vision became blurry at times. Read the rest of this entry…
People who are both HIV and hepatitis C infected are at significantly higher risk of kidney disease compared to those with HIV only, say US researchers in a study published in the September 12th edition of AIDS.
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Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 43-year-old male who had never been sick until I had a kidney stone two months ago. I passed the stone without surgery. How can I keep from getting another one? I don’t want to go through that pain again.
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Cataracts are a common eye disease, suffered by many elderly people, which can lead to decreased eyesight and consequently, making life very difficult.
Often surgery is seen as the solution, but it is not the only way out. TCM suggests herbal medicines that reinforce the liver, kidney or spleen may help delay aggravation of cataracts in their early stages.
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Hundreds of bicyclists hit the back roads of Waupaca County on Monday, pedaling to raise awareness of kidney disease and raise funds for those stricken by it.
You don’t have to be a professional bicyclist to be a part of this ride up hills, on country roads, and through town. You just have to want to be a part of a good cause.
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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I read your article on iron-deficiency anemia. I have been treated for it for two years and have not had any improvement in how I feel.
I am seeing a specialist, who gives me a shot of Aranesp about once a month, when my hemoglobin result is low. At first, he prescribed iron pills, but they caused extreme itching. They were discontinued. The Aranesp is rather expensive.
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A whole lot of Americans are D-ficient – lacking adequate levels of vitamin D circulating in the bloodstream, according to research that increasingly suggests shortfalls contribute to numerous health woes.
Several recent studies suggest vitamin D plays an important role in keeping a lot more than our bones healthy, affecting everything from the immune system to circulation to development of the brain and the risk of developing certain cancers.
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Mark Martin has his hands full. Besides a high pressure MNC job, the hospital seems to have become second home. Thrice weekly, he takes his 63-year-old father for dialysis; each session lasts 4-5 hours. He has lost count of his waking and sleeping hours. It’s a double whammy for him — his mother was fatally struck with it two years back.
That’s what kidney disease does to families — debilitates them physically, emotionally and monetarily. Some of the patients are as young as eight years. What’s distressing is that it could have been prevented. In India, kidney disease occurs a decade earlier than in western counterparts and is gaining epidemic proportions.
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