Renal Business Today

Clinical & Pharma

Kidney disease patients rely on numerous pharmaceuticals—including erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs),iron, Vitamin D, phosphate binders and calcium—to ensure proper care. In addition, new clinical research is released on a regular basis by nephrologists and other doctors to advance the field of nephrology.

Abnormal Carotid Arteries Found in Children with Kidney Disease

BALTIMORE—A federally funded study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center has found that children with mild to moderate kidney disease have abnormally thick neck arteries, a condition known as carotid atherosclerosis, usually seen in older adults with a long ...More
September 21, 2012
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Stream Live: Stem Cell Research Symposium this Saturday

On Saturday, September 22, the Kidney Contenders are holding a research symposium at the Texas State Capitol in Austin. The event will start at 10 a.m. and go to 3 p.m. and will be streamed live. ...More
September 21, 2012
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Win $50,000 Towards PKD Research

NEW YORK—Every two years the Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is given to a recognized medical professional or researcher exhibiting excellence and leadership in PKD clinical or basic research. ...More
September 20, 2012
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Healionics Receives Grant for Preclinical Study of Anti-Infective Sleeve for Hemodialysis Catheters

SEATTLE—Healionics Corporation received a $909,165 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for preclinical studies to advance STARcuff, a STAR ...More
September 20, 2012
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Michelle Denburg Receives Career Development Grant from NephCure, ASN

BERWYN, Pa.—The NephCure Foundation announced today that Michelle Denburg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor of pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a $200,000 Career ...More
September 19, 2012
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Nearly Half of Kidney Recipients in Living Transplant Chains Are Minorities

LOS ANGELES—The largest U.S. multicenter study of living kidney transplant donor chains showed that 46 percent of recipients are minorities, a finding that allays previous fears that these groups would be disadvantaged by expansion of the donor pool through this type of ...More
September 19, 2012
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Kidney Society Describes Ways to Eliminate Wasteful Tests, Procedures

WASHINGTON—Earlier this year, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), joined other groups in a campaign to help health care professionals and patients avoid wasteful and sometimes harmful medical interventions. A new article in the Clinical Journal of the American Society ...More
September 14, 2012
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Dissolve Kidney Stones, Bypass Kidney Failure

LONDON—A new report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says kidney stones can double the risk of dialysis or kidney transplant later in life for people who have had them, and it is certainly connected with the conventional treatments patients with kidney stones have ...More
September 14, 2012
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Belly Button Kidney Removal Boosts Living-Donor Satisfaction

BALTIMORE—In the largest study of its kind, living donors who had a kidney removed through a single port in the navel report higher satisfaction in several key categories, compared to donors who underwent traditional multiple-port laparoscopic removal. ...More
September 13, 2012
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Quality of Life and Treatment Of Late-Stage CKD

SYDNEY—In people with late-stage chronic kidney disease, renal transplantation is the best treatment option to improve quality of life, but for those receiving dialysis, home-based automated peritoneal dialysis (PD)—in which fluids are infused into the abdominal cavity and ...More
September 12, 2012
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