Donating kidney does not increase long-term risk of death
Thursday, 11 March 2010- An analysis of outcomes for live kidney donors in the US over a 15 year period finds they have similar long-term survival rates compared to healthy individuals who were not kidney donors, according to a study in the 10 March issue of JAMA.
Many patients with end-stage...
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Dietary supplements discouraged for PCa patients
Wednesday, 10 March 2010- Prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken during radiation therapy treatments because they have been shown to increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to normal tissue complications, according to a study in the March issue of the...
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UV light exposure lowers kidney cancer risk in men
Tuesday, 9 March 2010- Men who work in the sun are less likely to contract kidney cancer than men who work indoors, according to a study which examined more than 2,500 people in Europe.
"To our knowledge, this is the first case-control study to provide evidence of an inverse association...
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BENEFIT: belatacept preserves kidneys, avoids toxicity
Monday, 8 March 2010- The experimental drug belatacept can prevent graft rejection in kidney transplant recipients while better preserving kidney function when compared with standard immunosuppressive drugs, data from two international phase III clinical trials show.
The results are published in...
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Circulating endothelial cells and progenitors: potential RCC biomarkers
Friday, 5 March 2010- A group of Australian researchers compared the levels of circulating endothelial cells (CECs) and progenitors (CEPs) between tumour-bearing mice and healthy controls, in human renal cell carcinoma (RCC) xenograft models.
B. Namdarian and colleagues said they also aimed...
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Large kidneys predict poor renal outcome in diabetic patients with chronic renal disease
Friday, 5 March 2010- Renal hypertrophy occurs early in diabetic nephropathy, its later value is unknown. V. Rigalleau and colleagues examined the query whether large kidneys still predict poor outcome in patients with diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). They published their findings...
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US radiologist warns of over-use and radiation exposure of CTs ordered for women with acute pelvic conditions
Thursday, 4 March 2010- Harvard Professor Beryl Benacerraf urges the medical community in the US to use ultrasound instead of computed tomography (CT) as the first-line imaging test for better diagnosis capability in the evaluation of acute female pelvic and lower abdominal conditions.
In the...
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Combination therapy more effective for enlarged prostate
Thursday, 4 March 2010- Like any successful team effort, the best qualities of two drugs commonly prescribed for enlarged prostate yielded better results than either of the medicines alone, according to a new study from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
The findings, published in a recent issue of...
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Prostate cancer surgeons 'feel' with their eyes
Wednesday, 3 March 2010- Robotic surgical technology's 3-D HD view gives surgeons compensatory illusion of tactile sensation.Robotic surgical technology with its three-dimensional, high-definition view gives surgeons the sensation of touch, even as they operate from a remote console. A new study...
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Vitamin D deficiency likely among some kidney disease patients starting dialysis
Tuesday, 2 March 2010- Vitamin D deficiency is almost universal among kidney disease patients who have low blood protein levels and who start dialysis during the winter, according to a study appearing in a forthcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN).
The...
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