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August 20, 2008

Kidney Disease Affecting Our Youth: Kidney Headline News

Check Young Kidney Patients’ Hearts
eMaxHealth.com – Hickory, NC, USA
A Beaumont Hospitals researcher is urging heart screenings for young and middle-aged people with chronic kidney disease, based on his research among more …

Teens with diabetes: Not defined by disease

USA Today – USA
Long-term problems, such as blindness, kidney disease and nerve damage, occur when a type 1 diabetic has prolonged hyperglycemia. …

Kidney Disease
Canada.com – Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
People with kidney failure need to receive dialysis or a kidney transplant. The most common causes of kidney disease include diabetes, high blood pressure, …

A tablet a day may cast dialysis away

The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Mr Alexander feels lucky his kidney disease, caused by diabetes diagnosed almost 30 years ago, has not advanced to the stage where he is required to have …

DaVita Dialysis honored for patient care
Yuma Sun – Yuma, AZ, USA
They are also the leading causes of chronic kidney disease. ESRD occurs when chronic kidney disease progresses from the kidneys functioning at 60 percent or …

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August 11, 2008

Treating Kidney Disease – Kidney Headline News

Kidney disease can be treated
Corpus Christi Caller Times – Corpus Christi,TX,USA
The presence of microalbuminuria predicts future development of proteinuria, which ultimately predicts end stage kidney disease. …

Tiny pump which could boost kidney patients’ lives
Daily Mail – UK
Around four in every 1000 people in Britain will develop kidney disease at some point in their life. Some will respond to treatment with a cocktail of drugs …

Kidney Disease Poses a Big Challenge, but Dialysis Gives Me Hope …
Washington Post – United States
An estimated 26 million American adults live with kidney disease, according to a study last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association. …



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