Brain injured athletes may benefit from hypothermia research Nov 14, 2009
The filter-cooling unit technology works similar to renal dialysis, removing a volume of blood and replacing it with a cooled crystalloid solution through a catheter in the carotid artery. The rest of the brain and body maintain a normal temperature. (EurekAlert!)
Cape Coral Mailbag Nov 14, 2009
We are run by all volunteers and all proceeds go to the Kidney Foundation as well as dialysis patients in the Cape. Our budget does not allow us to pay for advertising, but I thought the people of Cape Coral might like to know about our store. (The News-Press -- Opinion)
Marine flies home to save his son Nov 14, 2009
Before little James was given the new kidney his life revolved around three trips a week to the Children's Hospital in Bristol for dialysis. Then in June he contracted severe peritonitis - a condition where a membrane which lines the abdominal cavity and surrounds the organs in the abdomen becomes inflamed. (BBC News -- UK)
Civil servants' adoptive, step parents eligible for free medical care Nov 13, 2009
The parents can also seek reimbursement if they need to undergo dialysis or to buy medicines not available at any government hospital or clinic. "These claims must be first approved by the respective civil servant's department head," he said. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Briefs: Irrigation equipment stolen Nov 13, 2009
Police say the girl is a kidney dialysis patient. Anyone with information can call the police missing person hotline at (559) 621-2455. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Letters to the editor (11/13/09) Nov 13, 2009
The U.S. government is in the insurance industry for seniors, it is in the insurance industry for veterans, it is in the insurance industry for the disabled and for patients on dialysis, and it is in the insurance industry for Native American populations, including Alaska Natives. The U.S. government also builds and funds military hospitals for care of active military personnel. (Anchorage Daily News)
Surgery Not Always Best for Narrowed Kidney Arteries Nov 13, 2009
Dr. Ajay Singh, clinical director of the renal division and director of dialysis at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said that renal artery stenosis, or narrowing of the arteries, is thought to be present in 1 percent to 2 percent of the 25 million Americans with high blood pressure ... SOURCES: Philip A. Kalra, M.D., consultant nephrologist, Salford Royal Hospital Trust and University of Manchester, U.K.; Ajay Singh, M.D.,... (MEDLINEplus)
Kidney Angioplasty Brings Risks but No Benefit Nov 13, 2009
After an average of about three years, the researchers found the two groups had similar rates of death, heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and decline of kidney function leading to a transplant or the start of dialysis. But 20 percent of patients getting angioplasty had a related complication in the first month, including two deaths, three amputations of toes or limbs, five cases of sudden kidney failure, and four hospitalizations for internal bleeding. (Newsmax)
Joe McGhee Jr. to receive kidney from sibling Nov 13, 2009
For almost three years, Joe McGhee has become a regular at DaVita Atmore Dialysis Center where he has been undergoing treatment twice weekly following kidney failure. That s getting old, he said. (Atmore Advance, AL)
How to Check Blood Pressure Troub... Nov 13, 2009
A dialysis fistula or shunt. A mastectomy on that side. (Suite101.com)
Local news briefs Nov 12, 2009
The St. Bernards Diabetes Management Program and St. Bernards Dialysis Center have joined efforts to provide free screenings for diabetes and chronic kidney disease from 8 a.m. to noon today at the Diabetes Management Center, 505 East Matthews Ave., Suite 105, in Jonesboro. Testing will include checks blood sugar (done as a finger prick), blood pressure, height and weight and blood creatinine levels (with blood drawn for lab work). (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Dialysis-linked hepatitis C spread alarming Nov 12, 2009
2 percent of patients who underwent dialysis in 2001 were infected with the hepatitis C virus because some facilities apparently failed to take proper precautions to prevent infection, according to a government study, which did not identify the institutions were the infections occurred ... The Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy and the Japanese Association of Dialysis Physicians said they have sent emergency recommendations to member institutions, asking them to take sufficient steps,... (Yahoo News -- Hepatitis)
Donnie Schmidt Nov 12, 2009
He traveled to Sioux Falls three times a week for dialysis and thoroughly enjoyed all the visits with each and every driver ... Honorary pallbearers were Donnie's dialysis drivers. (Freeman Courier, SD)
Small Increases In Phosphorus Mean Higher Risk Of Heart Disease Nov 12, 2009
12, 2009) Higher levels of phosphorus in the blood are linked to increased calcification of the coronary arteries -- a key marker of heart disease risk, according to a study in an upcoming issue of Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). "This may help to explain why even early-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with increased cardiovascular risk that is not otherwise explained by traditional risk factors," comments Katherine R. Tuttle, MD (Providence... (Science Daily)
Oscar Pfeifle Nov 12, 2009
The family wishes for memorials to be directed to: Avera Sacred Heart Dialysis, Benedictine Health Foundation, 1000 West Fourth Street, Yankton, SD 57078. Comment Blog - Note: All Comments Subject To Approval. (Freeman Courier, SD)
Emory, Georgia Tech, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta team up on kidney replacement devices for kids Nov 12, 2009
When children need kidney dialysis because of disease or congenital defects, doctors are forced to adapt adult-size dialysis equipment ... Paden says adult dialysis equipment can have a tendency to withdraw too much fluid from a pediatric patient, leading to dehydration and loss of blood pressure ... Other possible problems resulting from inaccurate dialysis equipment include clotting or internal bleeding. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Segway Stumbles in Europe Nov 12, 2009
The Segway was unveiled in December 2001 to much fanfare by Dean Kamen, an inventor who holds 100 patents on ideas including a wheelchair that climbs stairs and the first portable kidney dialysis machine. Since then, things haven't turned out so well. (Yahoo News -- Segway Human Transporter)
Missing teen dialysis patient found, going to hospital Nov 12, 2009
Missing dialysis patient, 16, found - Updates - Fresnobee ... Missing dialysis patient, 16, found ... A 16-year-old dialysis patient who left her east-central Fresno home Monday and missed two nights of life-saving treatment was found shortly after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. (Fresno Bee)
Missing dialysis patient, 16, found Nov 12, 2009
A 16-year-old dialysis patient who left her east-central Fresno home Monday and missed two nights of life-saving treatment was found shortly after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday ... She undergoes 10 hours of dialysis nightly ... "She's well aware of her medical condition. Maybe she thinks three days [without dialysis] is allowable," Dyer said. (Fresno Bee)
Tasty Pork Dishes for Your Table Nov 12, 2009
" But why have these non-private, third party-payer alternatives become a standard around the world in many rational countries and societies whose citizens consistently score higher than their U.S. counterparts on many critical health status indicators? And I ask of these opponents, why then, do you accept, for example, Medicare? Medicaid? Social Security? Public water systems? Law enforcement? Fire departments? Emergency services? Educational systems? Highway systems? Street lighting?... (CBS News -- Early Show)
Health care issue Nov 11, 2009
Your browsers security settings are preventing some features from appearing. Topic: Health Care Reform. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Scientists Explain Binding Action Of 2 Key HIV Antibodies; Could Lead To New Vaccine Design Nov 11, 2009
It works much like a dialysis machine, using thin fibers to capture and remove. . (Science Daily)
Thyatira News Nov 10, 2009
Those from our congregation are: Bennie Stacks, Mary Cocke, Grace Dandridge, and Virginia Williams (Senatobia), Claude Scruggs (Oxford), Beatrice O"Barr, Jane Anderson Whitten (Desoto Center) and Jimmy Vines(Jonesboro, Ar). Our shut in are Janie and Jeff Brister and Carol Henderson. Prayer requests have been made for Crystal Jacobs and her daughters of Looxahoma. This family is experiencing some trying times right now. Thomas Latimer remains in Oxford Hospital where he is experiencing kidney... (Seantobia Democrat, MS)
Cross-donor system planned for region's kidney patients Nov 10, 2009
But both her blood and tissue types were a complete mismatch for him, so Rosario remained on a transplant waiting list for years, relying on home dialysis to keep his body going. By chance, Rosario's doctor at Mass. (Yahoo News -- Organ Donation & Transplants)
System punishes organ donors Nov 10, 2009
He could hardly find words to express his gratitude, amid his relief that after two years on the transplant list and a year on dialysis, the wait for a healthy organ was over. Yet the very next day I was given good reason to rethink my decision when I read a report in the Los Angeles Times that despite my perfect health, donating a kidney could put me at risk for being denied health insurance or charged more because insurers may consider organ donation a pre-existing condition. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Low Vitamin D Levels Explains Most End-stage Renal Disease Risk In African-Americans Nov 10, 2009
"Our study adds to previous evidence linking vitamin D deficiency to the progression of kidney disease and the need for dialysis," comments Michal L. Melamed, MD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) ... Melamed and colleagues analyzed a nationwide sample of 13,000 Americans, including measurements of the vitamin D metabolite 25(OH)D. Medicare data were used to identify participants who eventually required dialysis therapy for ESRD. "We found that the participants with the lowest... (Science Daily)
Confederate landmark defaced by graffiti Nov 9, 2009
Across the area 110909 - The Augusta Chronicle. Across the area From Staff Reports Monday, November 09, 2009 See the spray painted messages left on the Confederate monument on Broad Street. (The Augusta Chronicle)
There's the lucky, and the unlucky Nov 9, 2009
It saddens me to read your editorials and so many letters on health-care reform, in which the writers are comfortable in denying access to health care for the less fortunate among us. Even the legislation in Congress will significantly miss that target. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Quest for truth Nov 9, 2009
" Saudi investigations concluded that Helen and Johannes had fallen from the balcony while having sex and concluded that the deaths were accidental. The decision was accepted by the Foreign Office and British Embassy in Jeddah but Mr Smith has battled against this version of events. He believes his daughter was murdered and that the deaths were covered up against a backdrop of entangled British-Saudi politics. He has alleged the truth surrounding her death has been covered up by the British... (BBC News -- UK)
Across the area Nov 9, 2009
Confederate landmark is defaced by graffiti. The Confederate monument on Broad Street in Augusta was defaced Sunday night with spray-painted anti-white messages. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Younger Bulldogs step up Nov 9, 2009
--- Georgia suddenly has renewed cause to feel good about the future. The future is the Bulldogs' freshman class. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Ask critical questions when considering career in sales Nov 9, 2009
Millions of people have found a way to be their own boss and make money on a flexible schedule through direct selling. Being successful at direct selling doesn't require any special education or experience, but it isn't for everyone. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Future remains bright for equine industry in Aiken Nov 9, 2009
AIKEN --- Suzy Haslup is a thoroughbred trainer who will have about 15 horses under her tutelage this winter as she prepares them for the racetrack. Heidi White is a three-day eventer who is currently working with eight horses on their precision, endurance and jumping ability. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Merry's T-shirts get him nowhere Nov 9, 2009
The topic of the week is money and how your local government and school system plan to pick your pocket again one way or another. The Richmond County Board of Education wants to do away with the school tax exemption for seniors, and City Administrator Fred Russell has proposed another penny tax as a long-term fix to the city's budget shortfall. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Man struck by car while doing yard work dies Nov 9, 2009
A 72-year-old North Augusta man died today after being struck by a vehicle while doing yard work near his home. William Adams, of Seymour Drive, was pronounced dead shortly before 4 p.m. today at Medical College of Georgia Hospital, according to a release by Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Patients get a lift Nov 9, 2009
Patrick Tefft isn't walking on air at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, but he is pretty close. "It feels good," he said Thursday as he walked on the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill in the Active Duty Rehabilitation Unit. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Fort Hood shootings touch Evans family Nov 9, 2009
When Marikay DeCrow, of Evans, heard about Thursday's shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, she spent hours desperately calling hospitals looking for her husband, Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow. "But no one could find him anywhere," she said. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Trouble follows teen club to North Augusta Nov 9, 2009
A former Augusta teen nightclub has moved across the river and seems to have taken many of its problems with it. No signs herald Club Fusion's presence on Jefferson Davis Highway in North Augusta. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Car wrecks as driver flees, killing 2-year-old Nov 9, 2009
A 33-year-old father has been arrested and charged with vehicular homicide after authorities say he wrecked a car while fleeing police near Louisville, causing the death of his 2-year-old daughter and injuring his 3-year-old son. The incident occurred about 8:30 p.m. Friday after an attempted traffic stop, according to a release e-mailed Sunday by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Clemson coach Swinney not floored by ranking Nov 9, 2009
CLEMSON, S.C. - Clemson coach Dabo Swinney wasn't wowed by his first appearance in the national rankings Sunday. The first-year head coach is much more interested in his Tigers continuing to show the mental and physical toughness that's gotten them four straight victories and the No. 24 spot among college football's best. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Risk factors for tuberculosis in dialysis patients: a prospective multicenter clinical trial Nov 8, 2009
Profound alterations in immune responses associated with uraemia and exacerbated by dialysis increase the risk of developing active tuberculosis (TB) in chronic haemodialysis patients (HDPs) ... 03) and those treated with haemodialysis for < 12 months (Adj. (BioMed Central)
New rules change who gets donated kidneys Nov 8, 2009
"Kidneys with the longest estimated survival, like a 20-year-old's, going into somebody who is going to live two, three, five years." The other extreme is a kidney from an older donor going into a young recipient; the organ is likely to fail sooner, putting the patient back in dialysis ... The first is dialysis time ... A dialysis-time list would put all patients on equal footing. (AZCentral -- News)
School of hard knocks Nov 8, 2009
Kept alive by kidney dialysis, Yoichi Imai, a young local civil servant in Tokyo, has been afflicted with chronic nephritis since he was 8 years old. However, it is the love and care from his family and his environs that has encouraged him to live with his excruciating illness. (Xinhuanet, China)
'The worst bill ever' Nov 7, 2009
The worst bill ever' 110609 - The Augusta Chronicle. The worst bill ever' Proposed health-care plan poses a dire fiscal threat Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff Friday, November 06, 2009. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Outburst by activist to face review Nov 7, 2009
The Solicitor's Office plans to interview commissioners and the mayor about Woody Merry's outburst at a budget hearing Thursday, part of an effort to determine whether the activist violated an agreement to behave himself at public meetings. Solicitor Harold V. Jones II said Friday he checked the court requirement from the 2008 simple battery case of Mr. Merry, and it said he could not act in a disorderly manner while attending any public meetings in Augusta. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Music soothes the sick, comforts the bedridden Nov 7, 2009
Long tubes from a dialysis machine snaked underneath the boy's shirt and needled into his torso ... A nurse passed by and mentioned that if Josh's heart rate stayed up and his blood pressure dropped, it could cause problems for the dialysis. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Travel May Be Hazardous To Dialysis Patients Nov 7, 2009
6, 2009) If you're sick, traveling to a foreign land may boost your spirits, but jeopardize your health, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, CA. The findings indicate that dialysis patients who travel on vacation risk infections, anemia, and other complications that can compromise their dialysis treatments ... One patient died during travel and two damaged or lost their fistulas or grafts... (Science Daily)
Dialysis-linked hepatitis C spread alarming Nov 7, 2009
2 percent of patients who underwent dialysis in 2001 were infected with the hepatitis C virus because some facilities apparently failed to take proper precautions to prevent infection, according to a government study, which did not identify the institutions were the infections occurred ... The Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy and the Japanese Association of Dialysis Physicians said they have sent emergency recommendations to member institutions, asking them to take sufficient steps,... (Yahoo News -- Hepatitis)
Segway Stumbles in Europe Nov 7, 2009
The Segway was unveiled in December 2001 to much fanfare by Dean Kamen, an inventor who holds 100 patents on ideas including a wheelchair that climbs stairs and the first portable kidney dialysis machine. Since then, things haven't turned out so well. (Yahoo News -- Segway Human Transporter)
Tia H. Cheney Nov 7, 2009
She fought through pain, blindness, ulcers, dialysis, a coma, loss of teeth and many other health issues, all while maintaining an attitude of what do I need to do next ... They include Dr. George Mosley of the West Bend Clinic, the transplant team and staff at Froedtert Hospital, the staff at Midwest Dialysis, Dr. Hahn and Dr. Weinburg at the Eye Institute and Jim and Dave at West Bend Pharmacy. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Court mandated good behavior on Merry's part Nov 7, 2009
Outburst by activist to face review 110709 - The Augusta Chronicle. The Solicitor's Office plans to interview commissioners and the mayor about Woody Merry's outburst at a budget hearing Thursday, part of an effort to determine whether the activist violated an agreement to behave himself at public meetings. (The Augusta Chronicle)
How Strictest Price Control Of All Restrains A Great Medical Advance Nov 7, 2009
According to the British Journal of Medical Ethics, 40,000 people in Western Europe were on waiting lists for kidney transplants, but only 10,000 kidneys were available and nobody knows "how many people fail to make it onto the waiting lists and so disappear from the statistics." Meanwhile, there are an estimated 700,000 patients on dialysis worldwide. The benefits of organ transplants extend beyond the saving of thousands of lives to a restoration of a level of health and vigor that many have... (Investors Business Daily)
New Class Of Molecules May Help Prevent Fatal Complication In Patients With Kidney Disease Nov 6, 2009
(July 9, 2009) Dialysis treatments do not affect the heart health of kidney disease patients who have had a heart attack, according to a new study. Since cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in. (Science Daily)
Health care in Hawaii Nov 5, 2009
realitybites wrote on Nov 3, 2009 9:27 AM:" Yes, Gary! Smokers, the obese with starch-heavy, sugar soaked diets, drug addicts, etc. should all get free or subsidized medical care. Only a fool would think that by offering that to them it will change their habits. Any savings contemplated by a government run public option or single-payer system will be hugely and overly offset by covering these individuals who do it to themselves...who choose to live this way. This is why I strongly oppose... (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
FDA: Diabetes drug Byetta tied to kidney problems Nov 5, 2009
Overall, 91 percent of patients were hospitalized, 18 required dialysis, two had kidney transplants, and four died. Eighty percent stopped taking Byetta, and half of those patients had an improvement in kidney function after stopping the drug. (CNN -- Health)
Hospital board roof repairs Nov 4, 2009
The Ector County Hospital board of directors approved spending $284,080 on roof repairs over the laboratory and dialysis section of the hospital Tuesday night. The winning bid of $269,080 was made by Lydick-Hooks. (Odessa American, TX)
Death toll of A/H1N1 flu rises to 18 in Italy Nov 4, 2009
Doctors said Fernando Lettieri, a 37-year-old jazz musician on dialysis following a kidney transplant, died of pneumonia compounded by a flu virus infection. Lettieri is the ninth person to die of flu related causes in the Campania region around Naples after two women, 45 and 72, died in Naples on Monday. (Xinhuanet, China)
Fresenius Medical Increases 2009 Forecast as Third-Quarter Profit Advances Nov 3, 2009
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- , the worlds biggest provider of kidney dialysis, raised its forecast for the year after reporting a 9 percent increase in third-quarter profit. advanced to $225 million, or 76 cents a share, from $206 million, or 69 cents, a year earlier, the Bad Homburg, Germany-based company said in a statement today. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
WORST CASE: Teen hospitalized 4 months with H1N1 Nov 3, 2009
We didn't want her to try to breathe against the machine," Williams says. Eventually Tiffany's left lung collapsed, and she went into multi-organ sepsis. The toxins from the bacteria that were attacking her body were causing cardiac problems. She was on the ventilator for 55 days and on dialysis for 53 days. So far, hers is the worst case of H1N1 the hospital has seen. "Most of the kids with H1N1 recover and go home," Williams says. Tiffany finally moved to a rehabilitation floor Oct. 1. Now... (USA Today)
Renal Cancer: Protein Triggers A Snowball Effect Nov 3, 2009
(June 9, 2008) Diabetes is the leading cause of renal failure that requires dialysis. The disease generates such a hostile environment that it forces the kidney cells to kill themselves, progressively reducing the. (Science Daily)
Medicare Rationing for Kidney Dialysis (The Weekly Standard) Nov 3, 2009
Medicare Rationing for Kidney Dialysis - Yahoo ... Medicare Rationing for Kidney Dialysis. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Plano resident to be honored for work toward transplant awareness Nov 3, 2009
I went on three years of dialysis after that, she said. Thats when my mom had enough and said that I was too young to live on a machine and tested to be a kidney donor. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
For People on Dialysis, Too Thin Can Be Risky Nov 3, 2009
SUNDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Dialysis patients with very low body fat are much more likely to die than other people on dialysis, even those with the highest levels of body fat, a new study has found. Researchers measured body fat percentage in 671 dialysis patients in California ... "Our study indicates that body fat may be protective in dialysis patients," he said. (MEDLINEplus)
Anemia Drug May Raise Stroke Risk in Kidney Patients Nov 3, 2009
Pfeffer believes that people with more severe kidney disease, such as those on dialysis, might still find Aranesp beneficial and the risk acceptable. "People on dialysis generally feel even worse and generally have even more severe anemia, and this class of therapy has been very helpful to them," he said ... Dr. Ajay Singh, clinical chief of the renal division and director of dialysis at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said this "landmark study" raises the fundamental question of whether epoetin... (MEDLINEplus)
Traveling While on Dialysis Could Be Risky Nov 3, 2009
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Travel can jeopardize the health of people on dialysis, a U.K. study has found. Researchers at the Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute in London analyzed health information on 69 dialysis patients who had traveled in Europe, the Middle East, India, the United States, Africa, the Pacific Rim and South Asia ... One person died while traveling, two people damaged or lost their fistulas or grafts (surgically created sites used to connect dialysis... (MEDLINEplus)
