CHICAGO, Sept. 29 — For patients with metastatic kidney cancer, anti-angiogenesis therapy with sunitinib (Sutent) was more effective in those who had had cytoreductive surgery than in those who did not, researchers said here.
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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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A lot of people who aren’t particularly attached to their kidneys got together in Golden Gate Park on Wednesday.
It was a day to celebrate exactly how wonderful life can be without a kidney, or with someone else’s kidney, or with a chunk of some Good Samaritan’s liver.
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NEW YORK (CBS) ― There are nearly 77,000 people currently waiting for a kidney transplant. Fewer than one out of four of those patients will actually receive a donated kidney this year. An exciting new procedure may make more kidneys available and save more lives.
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An article in the Sept. 27 issue of the journal Transplantation has revealed that kidney transplant specialists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have developed innovative laboratory techniques to improve opportunities and success rates for kidney transplant candidates who are at high risk of organ rejection because of previous exposure to donor antigens.
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(NaturalNews) Indian police have raided a clinic where a team of doctors ran an illegal kidney-trading ring - removing kidneys from the poor, often by force, in order to sell them to wealthy locals or foreigners.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — One-third of kidney failure patients have certain kinds of antigens in their body that put them at high risk for organ rejection. For these patients, the chances of receiving a new kidney are slim — but thanks to newly developed techniques, they may now have the chance to receive a life-saving transplant.
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Contaminated milk has poisoned 54,000 children in China at last count, according to officials.
Nearly 13,000 remain in hospital after drinking milk products that contained the industrial chemical melamine. Four children have died and more than 100 are seriously ill.
Amid growing public outcry, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, visited hospitals in Beijing over the weekend and threatened harsh punishment for the culprits.
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He started using milk powder right after he was born because his mother didn’t have enough milk. Our family is not rich so we chose a common brand - Sanlu. After five or six months we found he had less urine than is normal and the colour was quite yellow but we didn’t pay much attention. After about eight months he had blood in his urine twice. We were so frightened we sent him to hospital at once. We went to four hospitals in one day and none of them knew how to deal with it.
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