About five million people in the US suffer from heart failure, and approximately half of them die within five years of being diagnosed. Only about 2,500 hundred people a year receive a heart transplant – the treatment of ...
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Study results published today in the National Kidney Foundation's American Journal of Kidney Diseases provide new insights into why a child's chronic kidney disease (CKD) may worsen to kidney failure. Among nearly 500 children ...
Mar 19, 2015
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When patients develop acute liver failure, severe complications arise rapidly after the first signs of liver disease, and patients' health can deteriorate rapidly. New research published in the American Journal of Transplantation ...
Mar 19, 2015
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It might be possible to heal cirrhotic liver disease by rebooting the genes that control liver cell function, according to researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of ...
Mar 16, 2015
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New estimates published in The Lancet indicate that at best only half of people worldwide needing kidney dialysis or transplantation to treat kidney failure in 2010 received it. This suggests that at least 2.3 million people ...
Mar 13, 2015
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Kidneys from deceased donors that have acute injuries are frequently discarded instead of being used for transplant. However, a Yale-led study finds that such kidneys may be more viable than previously thought, and should ...
Mar 11, 2015
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World Kidney Day, celebrated on 12 March 2015, is commemorated to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys to our overall health and to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems ...
Mar 11, 2015
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Surgeons at a San Francisco hospital have completed all the operations in an organ donation chain that gave six patients new kidneys.
Mar 7, 2015
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Surgeons have started the final operations in an organ donation chain that will result in six patients getting new kidneys at a San Francisco hospital.
Mar 6, 2015
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When a Sacramento woman donated a kidney to a stranger, she set off a series of organ swaps that resulted in five more sick people getting new kidneys at a San Francisco hospital.
Mar 6, 2015
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