How to End America's Kidney Shortage
In a recent article in Regulation, economist Frank McCormick and Stanford Medical School Professor explain how the United States could put an end to our persistent shortage of kidneys for transplant: News stories abound of kind people—relatives, close friends, and even complete strangers—who…#regulation #frankmccormick #nota #stevelevitt #juliojelías #nicola #mariomacis #aer (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Experts Outline Strategies for Boosting Equity in Chronic Kidney Disease
(MedPage Today) -- Physicians and advocates explored ways to improve access to clinical trials, dialysis, and transplants for racial and ethnic minorities with chronic kidney disease during a webinar hosted by U.S. News & World Report and sponsored... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - May 15, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
What Caused Visual Disturbance in Kidney Transplant Patient?
(MedPage Today) -- Genetic testing identified PAX2 gene variant (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - May 15, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Selfless giving: Living kidney donors are saving lives
According to the National Kidney Foundation, every 14 minutes, someone in need is added to the kidney transplant list. Laura Laxton, an employee of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, donated a kidney in 2021. Outcomes from a living donor are often better for the recipient, and the chance of living donors having any problems with their remaining kidney is only 0.3%.*
Kidneys are the most donated organ, and a record 25,000-plus kidneys were donated in 2022. Because people have two kidneys but only … (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - May 14, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Source Type: news
Simplifying Diagnosis of Rejection After Kidney Transplant Simplifying Diagnosis of Rejection After Kidney Transplant
User-friendly ChatGPT-like system allows for accurate diagnoses of rejection, using often complicated Banff classification criteria ' with just a few clicks. ' Observers hail the work as ' innovative. 'Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - May 11, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Nephrology News Source Type: news
Rwanda: King Faisal Hospital to Conduct Four Kidney Transplants This Month
[New Times] A kidney transplant, a medical procedure to replace a patient's failed kidney with a healthy one from a donor, will begin to be performed in Rwanda on May 22 of this year, according to the Health Minister, Sabin Nsanzimana. He said this will be great progress in the country's medical sector. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 11, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
When does life end? New organ donation strategy fuels debate
On a chilly holiday Monday in January 2020, a medical milestone passed largely unnoticed. In a New York City operating room, surgeons gently removed the heart from a 43-year-old man who had died and shuttled it steps away to a patient in desperate need of a new one.
More than 3500 people in the United States receive a new heart each year. But this case was different—the first of its kind in the country. “It took us 6 months to prepare,” says Nader Moazami, surgical head of heart transplantation at New York University (NYU) Langone Health, where the operation took place. The run-up included oversight from an eth...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 11, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
GLP-1 RAs Safe Months After Kidney Transplant
(MedPage Today) -- SEATTLE -- Even for new kidney transplant recipients with diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists (RAs) were safe and effective, a researcher reported here.
In a retrospective study, kidney transplant patients who were on insulin... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - May 8, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Patient Views on Cannabis Use in CKD and Kidney Failure Patient Views on Cannabis Use in CKD and Kidney Failure
How do kidney disease patients feel about using cannabis for symptom control? A new survey provides insight.Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - May 4, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Nephrology Journal Article Source Type: news
Sangamo Therapeutics chopping 120 jobs after Biogen, Novartis exit deals
The company's non-partnered programs will zero in on Fabry Disease gene therapy, a cell therapy for certain kidney transplant recipients and preclinical therapies targeting prions diseases and neurology. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - May 1, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news
Heart Disease Screening Showed No Kidney Transplant Benefit Heart Disease Screening Showed No Kidney Transplant Benefit
Screening for coronary heart disease in asymptomatic, low-risk people listed for a kidney transplant often happens in US practice, but evidence showing it helps is lacking.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - April 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nephrology News Source Type: news
Who gets on a kidney waitlist? We're in the dark on a crucial step toward transplant
To have even a chance at a kidney from a deceased donor, an ailing patient needs to get onto the waiting list. But fewer Americans on dialysis have that chance. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
Years into his quest for a kidney, an L.A. patient is still in 'the Twilight Zone'
More than two years have passed since Roland Coleman, a seasoned attorney, started trying to get onto the kidney transplant waitlist. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news
Study Looks at Access to Kidney Care for Undocumented Immigrants
MONDAY, April 24, 2023 -- Twenty states and the District of Columbia (DC) provide coverage for outpatient hemodialysis for undocumented immigrants, five of which also provide coverage for kidney transplantation, according to a research letter... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 24, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Barry: 'A stranger I met at the beach gave me her kidney'
Lucy Humphrey's dog, Indie, "chose" the woman who was able to give her the transplant she needed. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - April 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
