http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. While the percentage of kidney transplants involving live donors has remained stable for other minority populations, African Americans have seen a decline in live donors even as more of them receive kidney transplants, according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-african-americans-kidney-transplants-donors.html Surgery Wed, 08 May 2013 12:33:40 EST news287235211 Bioengineered rat kidneys developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators successfully produced urine both in a laboratory apparatus and after being transplanted into living animals. In their report, receiving advance online publication in Nature Medicine, the research team describes building functional replacement kidneys on the structure of donor organs from which living cells had been stripped, an approach previously used to create bioartificial hearts, lungs and livers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-implantable-bioengineered-rat-kidney-video.html Medical research Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:00:17 EST news285140804 Johns Hopkins scientists have created a free, Web-based tool to help patients decide whether it's best to accept an immediately available, but less-than-ideal deceased donor kidney for transplant, or wait for a healthier one in the future. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-kidney-transplant-decision-tool.html Other Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:11:13 EST news284735465 African-Americans and individuals without private health insurance are less likely than others to receive a kidney transplant before requiring dialysis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that efforts are needed to ensure the equitable distribution of donor kidneys and the timing of transplantation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-disparities-kidney-transplant.html Other Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:00:05 EST news278869706 Belatacept (trade name Nulojix) has been approved since June 2011 to prevent a rejection reaction of the body to the donor organ (transplant) in adults who have received a kidney transplant. The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has examined the added benefit of the drug pursuant to the "Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products" (AMNOG). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-belatacept-kidney-transplant-minor-added.html Medications Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:17:20 EST news271689428 Three studies presented during the American Society of Nephrology's Annual Kidney Week provide new information related to kidney transplantation—specifically, the post-transplant health of kidney donors and the racial disparities faced by children in need of transplants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-transplantation-issues-kidney-donors-children.html Other Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:43:55 EST news271089809 Jack Burns and his wife, Adele, welcomed Doug Robertson with open arms. It was a very special reunion! http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-software-kidney-donations-faster.html Other Tue, 01 May 2012 05:40:01 EST news255068121 A policy instituted in 2005 has reduced racial disparities in kidney transplantation among children, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). Children are better off receiving kidneys from live donors, though, and receiving organs from deceased donors can diminish the limited supply of organs available to kidney failure patients on waiting lists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-children-today-racial-disparities-kidney.html Other Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:00:05 EST news254672493 Among patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing living-related kidney transplants, the use of bone-marrow derived mesenchymal (cells that can differentiate into a variety of cell types) stem cells instead of antibody induction therapy resulted in a lower incidence of acute rejection, decreased risk of opportunistic infection, and better estimated kidney function at 1 year, according to a study in the March 21 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-stem-cells-adults-donor-kidney.html Medical research Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:29:21 EST news251479748 (AP) -- Lindsay Porter's kidneys were failing rapidly when a friend offered to donate one of his. Then she made an unusual request: Would he donate part of his immune system, too? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-kidney-transplant-patients-life-drugs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:14:36 EST news251396069 Living kidney donors are at no greater risk of heart disease than the healthy general population, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-kidney-donors-heart-disease.html Cardiology Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:23:37 EST news249884596 (HealthDay) -- In the community setting, health indicators are significantly associated with post-kidney-transplant mortality, according to a study published online Feb 20 in the Archives of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-health-indicators-tied-transplant-outcomes.html Surgery Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:20:02 EST news249195568 (AP) -- More and more people are donating one of their kidneys to a loved one, a friend, even a stranger, and now a move is on to make sure those donors really fare as well as they're promised. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-kidney-donors-fare.html Other Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:02:16 EST news241718526 With three people on the kidney transplant list dying in the UK every day, should doctors encourage their patients to put themselves at risk for the benefit of others? Two experts debate the issue in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-doctors-people-donate-kidney-stranger.html Other Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:14:16 EST news240642850 People over age 70 years of age can safely donate a kidney, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results provide good news for patients who need a kidney but have limited options for donors; however, kidneys from these elderly donors do not last as long as those from younger living donors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-donate-kidney.html Other Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:26:53 EST news239009205 A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that since the elimination of the kidney allocation priority for matching for HLA-B on May 7, 2003, access to kidney transplantation for minorities has been improved. Improvement is a result of a policy that reduced the requirements for tissue matching. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-national-kidney-allocation-policy-minority.html Other Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:01:05 EST news230472055 A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center sheds light on what causes certain kidneys to do better than others after being transplanted, providing doctors with an easy way to screen for donor kidneys that have the best chance of survival. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-genes-donor-kidney-survival.html Other Tue, 10 May 2011 03:59:47 EST news224218748