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A group of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh find that intensive kidney dialysis does not necessarily promise a better result. It shows that more dialysis does not always improve kidney function or reduce the rate of organ failure. The study comes as a sharp contrast to the earlier researches that [...]

Medical tourism is the latest buzzword in the world of tourism and travel industry. The term defines the practice of traveling across international border in order to avail health care. It includes a wide range of treatment like joint replacement, renal transplantation, cardiac surgery, plastic and cosmetic surgeries. Also the leisure aspects associated [...]

The health department of Philippines is going to introduce a new rule for the donors of the kidney transplant. According to this rule, they will allow to do kidney transplant only if the donor is in blood relation with the foreign recipients.

At 24, when Peter Leslie was admitted to hospital on the eve of Christmas he did not imagine that he would have to face the next Christmas with a new kidney. At this age, he had to go for kidney transplantation surgery at the St Mary’s hospital. And now at 67, he is one [...]

The one billion dollar kidney market in Pakistan received a major setback when the Govt. has banned the trade of human organ in the country. The ban has forced thousands of kidney patients to look else where for a donor. In can be mentioned that Pakistan is one of the biggest markets [...]

In a recent study conducted by the Africa - America Study of kidney and Hypertension has shown that the kidney related disease only get worsened in majority of the participants. The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine proves that even the best treatment can not keep the kidney diseases from the [...]

A new, non-surgical procedure called radio-frequency ablation (RFA) offers new hope for patients with inoperable kidney and liver tumors. RFA uses heat to “vaporize”

Herbal extract forskolin, that is sold in health food stores and promoted as an allergy and fat loss aid may improve treatment of bladder infections when it is taken with antibiotics, research suggests.

Obesity seems to increase the risk of Renal Cell Cancer in women while in men a small hip circumference is associated with increased risk.