Archive for the 'Kidney' Category

Researchers suggest doctors to spare kidney tissue to increase survival rate

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have found that surgery to spare as much kidney tissue as possible may improve overall survival in patients who also have reduced kidney function at the time their cancer is diagnosed. The study is significant because both kidney cancer and decreased kidney function appear to be increasing.

Different types of Haematuria; causes and treatments

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Haematuria is a condition which is normally found in the males and exceptionally found in females. In this disease blood discharge is usually noticed along with urine. Haematuria is most commonly present in very small quantities and is only detected by a simple dipstick test.

Possible health factors that keep kids inattentive in school

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Latest news reveals that eye, ear and teeth problem can be a possible trouble factors for the loss of child attention.

New study counter-attacks the immune response that causes insulin-dependent diabetes

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Good news for the patients suffering from (insulin-dependent) Type 1 Diabetes . As now doctors of Masachusetts has discovered a new way to cure Type I Diabetes by isolating and killing the defective immune system cells that wipe out insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.

Kidney Disease In USA: Reasons And Prevention

Monday, August 4th, 2008

A recent article in the Journal of American Medical Association, has shown that nearly 26 million American adults are suffering from chronic kidney disease. The number has increased to 13.1 percent between the year 1994 and 2004.

BC Woman Takes The Help Of Social Site To Find Kidney Donor For Her Husband

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

The social networking site is indeed a fun and friendship site for the other. But for Jewel Calibaba it is more than a social site. She is searching for a kidney donor for her husband through the site. She has created her page on the popular social networking website Facebook and appealed for a kidney [...]

Women Donated Kidney To Strangers

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Paula MacKinnon and Barbara Ryder, both are women, one is in her middle 30 and the later is nearly double of her age. The former is a Scot and the other is from England. But they are very close to each other as they share a great similarity. Both of them have donated kidney to [...]

Gender Matching - An Important Factor In Kidney Tranplantation

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

According to the researchers from the University Hospital in Basel, female patients receiving the kidney transplants from male donors have the higher risk for rejecting the new kidney than male patients receiving organs from the female donors.

Vitespen Failed To Improve Remission After Kidney Tumor-Removing Surgery

Friday, July 4th, 2008

The British Journal The Lancet has reported that a new kidney cancer vaccine called vitespen, failed in last-phase clinical trials to improve the odds of avoiding remission after tumor-removing surgery. Christopher Wood and other of his co researchers of the Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, have tested the vaccine to 409 patients whose [...]

Kidney Transplantation In Kolkata: An Overview

Saturday, June 14th, 2008