Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: kidney biopsy http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Nephrologist follow-up improves mortality of severe acute kidney injury patients Patients with acute kidney injury who see a nephrologist within 90 days of being discharged from a hospital have a 24 per cent lower risk of dying than those who do not see a kidney specialist, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-nephrologist-follow-up-mortality-severe-acute.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:28:33 EST news286547306 Synthetic marijuana use linked to kidney damage (HealthDay)—Synthetic marijuana products, also known as Spice or K2, are potentially very dangerous for the kidneys, new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-synthetic-marijuana-linked-kidney.html Medications Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:30:06 EST news279905484 TGen method isolates biospecimens for treatment of kidney disease Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have developed a method of isolating biospecimens that could lead to a less costly, less invasive and more accurate way of diagnosing chronic kidney disease, or CKD. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-tgen-method-isolates-biospecimens-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:46:06 EST news261218753