Severe Kidney Disease Needs Complex Management Case vignette describes …
ModernMedicine
6 (HealthDay News) — Aggressive management is required for patients with stage IV chronic kidney disease, according to an article in the Jan. …

Pharmacists Improve Care of Diabetics While Cutting Costs, Research Shows
Science Daily (press release)
Higher A1Cs indicate that a patient is at higher risk for developing long-term complications associated with diabetes, such as kidney disease or vision …

Losing weight may help preserve kidney function: a video Health Tip
Plain Dealer
By Robert Higgs, The Plain Dealer Video: Dr. Sankar Navaneethan of the Cleveland Clinic discusses potential benefits that obese people with kidney disease …

Bike tour raises money, awareness of kidney disease
Muskegon Chronicle – MLive.com
The Tour DaVita is a 250-mile bike ride aimed at raising funds and awareness for kidney disease. WEST MICHIGAN — Dietitian Jill Rosekrans-Gawne said she has …

Many on debilitating dialysis not told about transplantation option
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Dialysis does not cure kidney disease, which afflicts about 26 million Americans. Sign up for PghScience, the Pittsburgh Trib’s free weekly e-mail …

Experts: Crucial to get on waiting list as soon as possible
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Even though he was diagnosed with kidney disease five years ago, it wasn’t until two months ago that Cannon completed the required evaluation to be listed. …

Sleep Problems Common in Non-dialysis-dependent Children with …
Zikkir World (blog)
Sleep disorders are a common and under-recognized problem for children and adolescents with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD), …

Vitamin D deficiency can be dangerous to your health
Clinton Herald
Patients with chronic kidney disease are especially susceptible due to the inability to convert Vitamin D to an active form, leading to Vitamin D deficiency …

Kidney Function: A Few Important Things You Should Know
LongIslandPress.com
The doctor’s recommendations and treatment plan can help a patient to slow the progression of kidney disease as much as possible. …

Could you be at risk for diabetes?
WREX-TV
Diabetes can lead to serious problems, such as kidney failure, blindness and heart disease. Some of these problems can be prevented, but only if the disease …

Electronic Nose Can Sniff Out Kidney Diseases and Lung Cancer
DOTmed.com (press release)
Of these, the team identified the five most important compounds that signal the development of kidney disease. The idea to use the electronic nose to test …

Immunoglobulin Can Predict Some Diabetic Complications
U.S. News & World Report
… urine at the start of the study were about three times more likely to suffer cardiovascular-related death or to progress to end-stage kidney disease. …

What Is Dialysis? What Is Kidney Dialysis?
Medical News Today – UK
Studies have indicated clearly that for kidney disease patients who need to undergo dialysis, one type of treatment is not best for all. …

Gene may help explain kidney failure in African-Americans
CNN – USA
By Elizabeth Landau (CNN) — A single gene, called MYH9, may be responsible for many cases of kidney disease among African-Americans, researchers say. …

Yellow Pea Protein Found to Lower Blood Pressure
Natural News.com – Phoenix,AZ,USA
(NaturalNews) Extracts from yellow peas may lower blood pressure and relieve other symptoms in those with kidney disease, according to a new study conducted …

American Kidney Fund Calls for Increased Awareness of Chronic …
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
The American Kidney Fund today called for increased awareness of the impact of chronic kidney disease in light of a new report which illustrates alarming …

10 facts about diabetes and kidney disease in US-Latinos
La Prensa – Toledo,Ohio,USA
This increases their chances of developing serious complications such as chronic kidney disease 2 , heart disease and strokes. …

Nocturnal Hemodialysis Found Not to Improve Quality of Life
Renal and Urology News – New York,NY,USA
The investigators also evaluated the two groups using the Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form. Compared with CHD patients, NHD patients had …

The Merck Company Foundation Launches Five-Year Effort to Close …
MarketWatch (press release) – USA
African-Americans with diabetes are more likely to experience kidney disease and amputations of lower extremities (legs and feet). …

Diabetes in American Youth: High Rates in Those Under Age 20
HealthNewsDigest.com – New York,NY,USA
… which is a major risk factor for many long-term, serious complications including vision-threatening eye disease, kidney disease, and heart disease. …

March is National Kidney Month
UroToday – Berkeley,CA,USA
… 2009) are health awareness campaigns focusing on the importance of the kidneys and the reduction of the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its …

Hidden Phosphorus Food Additives Dangerous To Kidney Disease Patients
Science Daily (press release) – USA
20, 2009) — Advanced kidney disease patients have a list of foods they know to avoid because they naturally contain a high level of the mineral phosphorus, …

Chewing Gum Helps Treat Hyperphosphatemia In Kidney Disease Patients
Science Daily (press release) – USA
20, 2009) — Chewing gum made with a phosphate-binding ingredient can help treat high phosphate levels in dialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) …

Kidney disease affects response to blood thinner
NephrOnline – Scottsdale,AZ,USA
“The information in our study may help doctors customize warfarin management in patients with kidney failure and lower the risk of complications,” said …

Why Use of Home-Based Dialysis Lags
Renal and Urology News – New York,NY,USA
There needs to be a lot of education done with primary-care doctors to start sending patients to nephrologists at late stage-3 kidney disease, …

Should you keep taking that multivitamin?
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
However, they weren’t any more likely to ward off a diagnosis of breast, ovarian, lung, stomach, bladder, kidney, colorectal or endometrial cancer compared …

Women who drink lots of soda at higher risk for early kidney disease
PhysOrg.com – Evergreen,VA,USA
Women who drink two or more cans of soda pop per day are nearly twice as likely to show early signs of kidney disease, a recent study has found. …

More Psychiatric Disorders in Teens Who Get Kidney Transplant
MedPage Today – Little Falls,NJ,USA
Note that previous research has been inconclusive as to whether kids with chronic kidney disease see improvements in psychological and social function after …

Simple algorithm predicts chronic kidney disease
Cortlandt Forum – New York,NY,USA
A new eight-factor algorithm helps predict which patients are most likely to develop chronic kidney disease (CKD) within a decade. The model is designed for …

Lakeland HealthCare looking to your good health in 2009

Niles Daily Star – MI, USA… the disease is critical to successful treatment in order to delay or prevent complications such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, and kidney disease. …

America Losing the Fight With Type 2 Diabetes
Washington Post – United States
… wave of illnesses and disabilities brought on by diabetes — heart disease and stroke, blindness, amputations, kidney disease and nervous system damage. …

Better Patient Outcomes With Drug Eluting Stents
Science Daily (press release) – USA
Patients with drug eluting stents were more likely to be female, with higher rates of kidney disease, diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension. …

Are diabetes drugs safe?
Malaysia Star – Malaysia
Thus appropriate medication is important in the prevention of, rather than the cause, of kidney disease. The misconception may have been further fuelled by …

Ahead of the Bell: AMAG Pharmaceuticals
Forbes – NY,USA
The drug is aimed at treating iron deficiency anemia in chronic kidney disease patients. AMAG said it believes no additional studies are required. …

Happy Holidays! I look forward to sharing new information with you in the year 2009.