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Kidney disease poses highest early – death risk among diabetics

Written by | 5 Feb 2013

While living well with type 2 diabetes is possible, when kidney disease emerges the risk of premature death increases significantly,

Hypertension during pregnancy increases risk of end-stage renal disease

Written by | 24 Jan 2013

Women with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are at higher risk of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease compared with women without the disorders, according to a study… read more.

Cranberry juice now unlikely to prevent cystitis

Written by | 21 Jan 2013

Cranberry juice is unlikely to prevent bladder and kidney infections, according to an updated systematic review published in The Cochrane Library.

ASH 2012 Report – Novel therapeutic agents provide hope for patients with hard-to-treat blood disorders

Written by | 21 Dec 2012

Encouraging safety and efficacy data on novel and emerging therapies presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Haematology (ASH) signal an important step forward… read more.

ASH 2012 Report – Potential gene therapy approach to sickle cell disease highlighted at ASH

Written by | 21 Dec 2012

Proof-of-concept animal study selected as one of the best presentations at 54th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition.

ASCO 2012 Report – Investigational drug shows promise in advanced melanoma, kidney cancer, and NSCLC

Written by | 20 Nov 2012

by Marybeth Burke – The investigational drug BMS-936558 caused tumour shrinkage in up to a quarter of patients with advanced melanoma, kidney and NSCLC cancers,

ITS 2012 Report – Antibody-Incompatible kidney transplantation and allograft loss

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – Biopsies taken one year after renal transplantation could be used for identifying patients at high risk of graft failure.

ITS 2012 Prizes and Awards

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

Details of prizes/awards at the 24th International Congress of the Transplantation Society

ITS 2012 Report – Live donor kidney transplantation: Intestinal transplant activity and outcome

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – Donating a kidney in later life can have a positive effect on quality of life, according to the largest study to date on this… read more.

ITS 2012 Report – Novel aspects in SPK transplantation: Kidney allograft survival

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – Patients undergoing simultaneous pancreas and kidney (SPK) transplantation where the drainage is led to the bladder are more likely to suffer acute rejection episodes… read more.

ITS 2012 Report – Marked increase in national organ donation rates in Israel

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – New legislation which recognises and defines the concept of brain death has allowed Israel to nearly double the number of transplantations of organs from… read more.

ITS 2012 Report – Difficult donor issues in the time of donor shortages

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – Introduction – In many ways waiting lists to receive an organ transplantation look very much the same today as they did a decade ago… read more.

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