MedicineWorld.Org brings daily kidney watch news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld kidney watch news service is the most comprehensive kidney watch news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/Kidney-watch-news.jpg 66 90 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2011/kidney-gene-and-heart-failure-risk.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2011/kidney-gene-and-heart-failure-risk.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Researchers have identified the first DNA sequence variant common in the population that is not only linked to an increased risk of heart failure, but appears to play a role in causing it. The variant, a change in a single letter of the DNA sequence, impairs channels that control kidney function. "It's not a heart gene," says Gerald W. Dorn II, MD, the Philip and Sima K. Needleman Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a lead investigator on the study. "It's a kidney gene. This protein is not even expressed in the heart. Nobody has previously considered that kidney-specific gene defects might predispose you to heart failure"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/12-2010/eat-your-veggies-reward-your-kidneys.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/12-2010/eat-your-veggies-reward-your-kidneys.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Phosphorous levels plummet in kidney disease patients who stick to a vegetarian diet, as per a research studyappearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results suggest that eating vegetables rather than meat can help kidney disease patients avoid accumulating toxic levels of this mineral in their bodies........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2010/growing-crisis-in-kidney-care.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2010/growing-crisis-in-kidney-care.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT An estimated 26 million people, 13% of the United States population, are living with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), and this number continues to grow. If current trends continue, there will not be enough doctors to serve this expanding patient population. To help address this crisis, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is convening a Summit on the Nephrology Workforce during its upcoming ASN Renal Week 2010 in Denver, Colorado, on November 17. Participants will discuss this crisis, its implications, and strategies to increase the number of kidney disease doctors in the United States........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2010/estrogen-therapy-and-kidney-stones.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2010/estrogen-therapy-and-kidney-stones.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Use of estrogen treatment is linked to an increased risk of developing kidney stones in postmenopausal women, as per a report in the October 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Nephrolithiasis [kidney stones] is a common condition that affects 5 percent to 7 percent of postmenopausal women in the United States," as per background information in the article. "Because the process of kidney stone formation is influenced by a variety of lifestyle and other health-related factors, the true impact of estrogen treatment on the risk of kidney stone formation is difficult to infer from findings based on observation."....... ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2010/income-race-link-for-kidney-disease.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/6-2010/income-race-link-for-kidney-disease.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT African Americans with incomes below the poverty line have a significantly higher risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) than higher-income African-Americans or whites of any socioeconomic status, research led by researchers at Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Aging shows. Conducted in a racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of participants from the city of Baltimore, Md., the study could help scientists eventually develop strategies to prevent CKD in vulnerable populations........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2010/gene-may-be-key-to-kidney-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/5-2010/gene-may-be-key-to-kidney-cancer.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Scientists at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida have discovered a key gene that, when turned off, promotes the development of common kidney cancer. Their findings suggest that a combination of agents now being tested in other cancers may turn the gene back on, providing a much-needed treatment for the difficult-to-treat cancer........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2010/silver-nanoparticles.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2010/silver-nanoparticles.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Diamonds and gold may make some hearts flutter on Valentine's Day, but in a University at Buffalo laboratory, silver nanoparticles are being designed to do just the opposite. The nanoparticles are part of a new family of materials being created in the laboratory of SUNY Distinguished Professor and Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources Esther Takeuchi, PhD, who developed the lithium/silver vanadium oxide battery. The battery was a major factor in bringing implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) into production in the late 1980s. ICDs shock the heart into a normal rhythm when it goes into fibrillation........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/high-blood-pressure-and-kidney-disease.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/high-blood-pressure-and-kidney-disease.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Susan Furth, M.D., Ph.D. Spot blood pressure readings in children with chronic kidney disease often fail to detect high blood pressure - even during doctor's office visits - increasing a child's risk for serious heart problems, as per research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and other institutions. A report of the findings appears online in the Journal of American Society of Nephrology........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2009/inner-secrets-of-the-bleeding-heart.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2009/inner-secrets-of-the-bleeding-heart.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Images that for the first time show bleeding inside the heart after people have suffered a heart attack have been captured by scientists, in a newly released study published recently in the journal Radiology The research shows that the amount of bleeding can indicate how damaged a person's heart is after a heart attack. The researchers, from the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre at Imperial College London, hope that this kind of imaging will be used alongside other tests to create a fuller picture of a patient's condition and their chances of recovery........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2008/preventing-anemia-is-important-to-kidney-disease.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2008/preventing-anemia-is-important-to-kidney-disease.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Maintaining sufficient red blood cell levels is important to the physical and mental health of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), as per a research studyappearing in the January 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that preventing anemia in kidney disease patients should be an integral part of their care........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/depressed-dialysis-patients-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/depressed-dialysis-patients-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Dialysis patients diagnosed with depression are nearly twice as likely to be hospitalized or die within a year than those who are not depressed, a. UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found. In the study, available online and in the Sept. 15 issue of Kidney International, scientists monitored 98 dialysis patients for up to 14 months. More than a quarter of dialysis patients received a psychiatric diagnosis of some form of depression based on a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition (DSM IV)........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2008/statins-linked-to-improved-survival.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2008/statins-linked-to-improved-survival.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT For patients receiving kidney transplants, therapy with cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs may lead to longer survival, reports a study in the November 2008 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). "Statin treatment is well established for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in the general population, but its effectiveness in patients with kidney disease is unclear," comments Dr. Rainer Oberbauer of the Medical University of Vienna, one of the study authors. "We showed that statin treatment was indeed linked to a lower risk of death in renal transplant recipients."....... ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/more-intensive-dialysis-does-not-improve-outcomes.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/5-2008/more-intensive-dialysis-does-not-improve-outcomes.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT No significant difference in death rates or other outcomes was found between a group of patients with acute kidney injury that received intensive dialysis and another group that received a more standard regimen of dialysis, as per a joint Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) study reported in the recent issue of the New England Journal (NEJM). Acute kidney injury, also called acute renal failure, is a common complication in hospitalized patients that is linked to very high mortality rates. In-hospital mortality rates of critically-ill patients typically range from 50 percent to 80 percent........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/live-kidney-donors-report-high-satisfaction-rates.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/live-kidney-donors-report-high-satisfaction-rates.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT Live kidney donors suffer minimal health problems and 90 per cent would strongly encourage other people to a become a donor if a partner or family member needed a transplant, as per a research studyof more than 300 people reported in the recent issue of the UK-based urology journal BJU International........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2007/better-alternatives-for-dialysis-patients.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2007/better-alternatives-for-dialysis-patients.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:17:54 GMT But an unhealthy kidney costs more-about $16 billion more, as per Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, associate professor in the division of nephrology and high blood pressure at the University of Cincinnati (UC). "It costs about $17 billion a year to care for patients with end-stage kidney disease," he said........ ]]>