The success of kidney transplants has vastly improved for children over the past half-century, with young children now experiencing better long-term transplant success than adults, according to study results from a large ...
Feb 27, 2017
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In cancer, there's a mistake in the hereditary material, the DNA, which causes uncontrollable growth of cells in the body. One in ten children with cancer has hereditary predisposition: a combination of DNA changes, spontaneous ...
Mar 1, 2022
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Nearly one-third of cases of Wilms tumor, a pediatric cancer of the kidney, are linked to a gene called Lin28, according to research from Boston Children's Hospital. Mice engineered to express Lin28 in their kidneys developed ...
Apr 13, 2014
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A longstanding approach to surgeries for children with kidney tumors has been an abundance of caution.
May 1, 2023
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A study by University at Buffalo researchers has shown that physicians in pediatric intensive care units are not using the newest guidelines to diagnose acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill children, a practice that ...
Oct 27, 2016
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For children receiving kidney transplants, a potentially correctable blood condition present in about one in four recipients is associated with a moderately increased risk of the graft's later failure, suggesting that clinicians ...
Jul 19, 2012
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(Medical Xpress)—Type 1 diabetes is a condition in which the body does not produce insulin and cannot convert sugar, starches and other food into energy. Generally diagnosed during childhood or adolescence, the disease ...
Mar 25, 2013
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Children with invasive bloodstream infections treated with a single antibiotic are just as likely to overcome their infections as those who get two-drug therapy, but at half the risk of drug-induced kidney damage, according ...
Aug 12, 2013
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Many children with lupus, which is an autoimmune condition, develop kidney problems, but a recent analysis in Arthritis & Rheumatology reveals that patients' kidney-related health has improved in recent years.
Apr 6, 2022
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Prior to February 2024, limited therapeutics were available to treat sepsis, a life threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Now, a new, commercially viable method of treatment is ...
Apr 13, 2024
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