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, …

Drinking Soda Pop Doubles Risk of Kidney Disease
Natural News.com – Phoenix,AZ,USA
But, especially if you are a woman, you could be setting yourself up for kidney disease. Researchers from Loyola University Health System say they’ve found …

Dietary Aid Helps Kidney Patients Stay Safe
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
10 (HealthDay News) — Too much dietary intake of phosphorus can be dangerous for people with kidney disease, but a new educational aid helps patients …

Fluoridation Ineffective & Harmful, studies show
Cherry Hill Courier Post – Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
… the National Kidney Foundation dropped its fluoridation support replacing it with this caution: “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be …

Fast food could harm kidney patients
NDTV.com – New Delhi,India
People with advanced kidney disease should avoid fast and processed food that contains phosphorus additives. High blood levels of phosphorus can lead to …

Task Force Alerting Nevadans to ‘Silent’ Killer Disease Crisis
SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USA
17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Chronic kidney disease (CKD), which affects 20 million people, is now the ninth leading cause of death in the US and it is …

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 …

Kidney Function Test May Not Be Cost-Effective
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
Among 10000 people, eGFR reporting would have led to an average of 13 fewer deaths and 29 fewer cases of end-stage kidney disease than serum creatinine …

Blood and urine protein predicts CKD progression
NephrOnline – Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Measuring a small protein in the blood and urine can predict which patients with non-advanced chronic kidney disease will progress to a more serious form of …
Potential New Target For Hypertension Treatment Discovered
Science Daily (press release) – USA
Some people only learn that they have HBP after it causes health problems, such as coronary heart disease, stroke, or kidney failure. …

Study: Blood Pressure Predicts Heart Disease
Ivanhoe – Winter Park,FL,USA
(Ivanhoe Newswire) — An inexpensive and non-invasive test can effectively indicate which kidney disease patients are at an increased risk of developing …

Study: Kidney donors do well over long term
FierceHealthcare – Washington,DC,USA
… are required to be healthy, have no kidney problems, and have no issues with high blood pressure or diabetes, both big contributors to kidney disease.