http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Women who drink two or more cans of soda pop per day are nearly twice as likely to show early signs of kidney disease, a recent study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news153406612.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:57:33 EST news153406612 A new study describes the psychological profile of adolescents who have received kidney transplants and compares them to those of healthy peers. The findings reveal a significantly higher prevalence of psychiatric conditions (depression, phobia, ADHD), educational impairment and social isolation among adolescents who had undergone a transplant. The study appears in Pediatric Transplantation. http://www.physorg.com/news153058676.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:18:32 EST news153058676 Compared to dialysis patients living near sea level, dialysis patients living at an altitude higher than 4,000 feet have a 12-15 percent lower rate of death, according to a study in the February 4 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news152901744.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:47:05 EST news152901744 In what is believed to be a first-ever procedure, surgeons at Johns Hopkins have successfully removed a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the back of the donor's vagina. http://www.physorg.com/news152816889.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:09:15 EST news152816889 People who donate a kidney live just as long and are just as healthy as those with two kidneys, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers that is the largest ever done on the long-term health consequences of donation. http://www.physorg.com/news152473077.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:38:27 EST news152473077 Large-scale data mining of gene networks in fruit flies has led researchers to a sensitive and specific diagnostic biomarker for human renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer. In the journal Science, published early online January 22, a team based at the University of Chicago shows that the biomarker known as SPOP is produced by 99 percent of clear cell renal cell carcinomas but not by normal kidney tissue. http://www.physorg.com/news152273169.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:06:47 EST news152273169 The older the kidney, the worse it works - though exactly how much worse isn't known. But with a mean wait time of over three years for a kidney transplant, even old kidneys are in demand. The challenge for doctors is to determine a kidney's prospects prior to the operation. http://www.physorg.com/news152201256.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:08:20 EST news152201256 In the United States, nearly 13 percent of adults age 20 and older have diabetes, but 40 percent of them have not been diagnosed, according to epidemiologists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose study includes newly available data from an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT). Diabetes is especially common in the elderly: nearly one-third of those age 65 and older have the disease. An additional 30 percent of adults have pre-diabetes, a condition marked by elevated blood sugar that is not yet in the diabetic range. http://www.physorg.com/news152194107.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:09:01 EST news152194107 A new and simple urine test can detect polyomavirus nephropathy, a relatively new and serious complication that affects up to 9% of kidney transplant recipients, according to a study appearing in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The advance could lead to better diagnosis and treatment of patients with this condition. http://www.physorg.com/news151781450.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:31:12 EST news151781450 Measuring a child's kidney function has traditionally been time-consuming, costly, and difficult to perform, but a new equation that uses parameters collected at routine office visits can effectively accomplish this, according to a study appearing in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The formula could prove useful for measuring kidney function when young patients are given antibiotics, chemotherapy, and other drugs that could potentially injure the kidneys. The equation could also be valuable for monitoring kidney function in children with kidney disease. http://www.physorg.com/news151781179.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:27:11 EST news151781179 Joslin Diabetes Center scientists are taking groundbreaking research on the role of inflammation in type 2 diabetes to a new level with the launch of a national clinical trial to investigate whether salsalate, an anti-inflammatory drug used for years to manage arthritis pain, can reduce blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes. If successful, the trial could lead one day to an inexpensive way to treat this most common form of diabetes, which has been increasing at epidemic rates in recent years. http://www.physorg.com/news151765572.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:07:01 EST news151765572 Doctors are not doing enough to pick up on problems with excessive weight loss, says a Saint Louis University physician who helped draft recent guidelines to diagnose the condition called "cachexia" (kuh-kex-ee-uh). http://www.physorg.com/news151755125.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:12:30 EST news151755125 A formula used to measure kidney function in children with chronic kidney disease has been revised to make it more precise, according to a study published online January 21 in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. This study is based on data collected by the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) clinical trial, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). http://www.physorg.com/news151694957.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:30:05 EST news151694957 A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV, provided certain risk factors for transplant failure are recognized and tightly managed. http://www.physorg.com/news151609761.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:51:01 EST news151609761 A Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon has found strong evidence that women over 45 are significantly less likely to be placed on a kidney transplant list than their equivalent male counterparts, even though women who receive a transplant stand an equal chance of survival. http://www.physorg.com/news151065609.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:40:09 EST news151065609 Younger women have equivalent access to kidney transplants compared with their male counterparts, but older women receive transplants much less frequently than older men, according to a study appearing in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The results suggest that steps are needed to ensure that women are provided with equal opportunities to receive kidney transplants as they age. http://www.physorg.com/news150571105.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:18:25 EST news150571105 Kidney cancer is typically without symptoms until it has spread to other organs, when it is also the most difficult to treat. Newer chemotherapies show great promise for extending survival during later disease stages, but they can also be highly toxic. http://www.physorg.com/news149270404.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:00:04 EST news149270404 Traditionally, doctors have had no clear way to predict which of their patients might be headed down the road to chronic kidney disease (CKD). Now, researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a simple eight-point risk factor checklist to do just that. http://www.physorg.com/news149178396.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:26:36 EST news149178396 In the art world, the most successful portraits are often those that reveal the true essence of the subject - a subject that on canvas, at least, will never age. In the science world, researchers are relying on portraits of gene expression patterns - but, in this case, the images are helping to reveal how various tissues form. http://www.physorg.com/news148219110.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:58:30 EST news148219110 The antidiabetes drug rosiglitazone may have the potential to protect kidney function in patients with a condition called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), according to a study appearing in the January 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The phase I clinical findings indicate that the drug warrants further study in phase II and phase III trials. http://www.physorg.com/news148152299.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:24:59 EST news148152299 Leading oncologist Professor Tim Eisen has expressed concerns that patients with advanced kidney cancer could be condemned to toxic, barely effective, 20 year-old treatments because the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is likely to rule out using all four of the new treatments it has assessed. http://www.physorg.com/news148046546.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:02:26 EST news148046546 Researchers at the University of Warwick have discovered high doses of thiamine - vitamin B1 - can reverse the onset of early diabetic kidney disease. http://www.physorg.com/news147959017.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:43:37 EST news147959017 A noninvasive test that analyzes proteins in the urine can correctly identify patients whose transplanted kidneys are failing, according to a study appearing in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The results might allow physicians to more accurately monitor transplant patients and to fine-tune the immunosuppressive therapies prescribed to prevent kidney rejection. http://www.physorg.com/news146940510.html Medicine & Health Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:48:30 EST news146940510 Acute kidney injury (AKI) -which is often caused by trauma, illness, or surgery -predisposes elderly individuals to the most serious form of chronic kidney disease (CKD), known as end stage renal disease (ESRD), according to a study appearing in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The findings indicate that close medical follow-up is important for maintaining the health of patients who have experienced kidney damage. http://www.physorg.com/news146335207.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:40:07 EST news146335207 A team of international scientists has identified three genes associated with the body's processing of fats that may increase susceptibility to kidney cancer. The findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. http://www.physorg.com/news146139216.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:13:36 EST news146139216 Researchers have generated the first comprehensive genetic blueprint of a forming mammalian organ, shedding light on the genetic and molecular dynamics of kidney development. http://www.physorg.com/news145543215.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:40:15 EST news145543215 New Australian research has shown that Indigenous Australians with kidney disease are confused, frustrated and feel poorly informed about their illness. http://www.physorg.com/news145532906.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:48:26 EST news145532906 A newly developed equation produces more accurate estimates of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) -a key indicator of kidney function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. http://www.physorg.com/news145288085.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:48:05 EST news145288085 For most patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), the risk of experiencing a cardiovascular related death is greater than the risk of progressing to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). According to research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, African Americans with CKD caused by high blood pressure (hypertensive nephrosclerosis) demonstrated a higher risk of progressing to ESRD than dying from heart disease related events. http://www.physorg.com/news145272745.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:32:25 EST news145272745 For patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) on dialysis who also must be treated for heart disease, stents provide the best one-year survival compared with other revascularization treatments, but bypass surgery provides the best long-term survival, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. http://www.physorg.com/news145215251.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:34:11 EST news145215251