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NIH Diabetes Network Expands Online, Nationwide Testing

WASHINGTON—People with a family history of type 1 diabetes can participate in free screening to help find ways to delay or prevent the disease, even if they live far from a study site. This alternative to site-based initial screening comes as modern technology enables more ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
NKF Spring Clinical Meeting Preview: Pragmatic Care in CKD and Dialysis

Care of the patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is multi-faceted and requires attention to a number of parameters in order to improve the current unacceptably high morbidity and mortality in the U.S. population. ...More
March 26, 2013
Posted in Articles, Practice Management
During National Kidney Month, FMCNA Calls Attention to High Blood Pressure

WALTHAM, Mass.—With high blood pressure now the second most common cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the United States (behind only diabetes), Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) wants people to know that controlling their blood pressure can slow the ...More
March 15, 2013
Posted in News, Practice Management
NIH Highlights Lifelong Impact of AKI

Bethesda, Md.—In observance of World Kidney Day on March 14, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is raising awareness of the long-term effects of acute kidney injury (AKI)—a sudden loss of kidney function. Research funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and ...More
March 13, 2013
Posted in News, Practice Management
FMCNA Offers Fitness Tips to Stay Active

WALTHAM, Mass.—Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects millions of Americans and requires about 400,000 of those whose kidneys have failed to rely on life-sustaining dialysis treatments to clean waste products and remove extra fluids from their blood. Kidney failure is also ...More
March 7, 2013
Posted in News, Practice Management
Reprogramming Cells to Fight Diabetes

PHILADELPHIA – For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, with limited success. The "reprogramming" of related alpha cells into beta cells may one day offer a novel and complementary approach ...More
February 26, 2013
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
UC San Diego Awarded NIH Grant to Expand Diabetes and Obesity Research Hub

SAN DIEGO—Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expand and enhance a cyberinfrastructure designed to provide scientists with easily accessible, Web-based resources to help fight diabetes ...More
February 15, 2013
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Kidney Disease Accounts for Most of the Increased Risk of Dying Early Among Diabetics

WASHINGTON—One in every 10 Americans has diabetes, and a third or more of those with the condition will develop kidney disease. It may be possible to live a long and healthy life with diabetes, but once kidney disease develops, the risk of dying prematurely increases ...More
January 25, 2013
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
New Target for Treating Prediabetes in Patients with Kidney Disease

WASHINGTON—Insulin resistance, or prediabetes, in individuals with kidney disease may be caused by the progressive retention of certain compounds that are normally excreted by the kidneys in healthy individuals, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the ...More
December 20, 2012
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Patients with Diabetes May Not Receive Best Treatment to Lower Heart Disease Risk

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—For some people with diabetes, there may be such a thing as too much care. ...More
December 19, 2012
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma