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UNH researchers aim to better understand dehydration and help humans survive it

A grant from the National Institutes of Health will help a University of New Hampshire researcher better understand dehydration and ultimately help humans better survive it by studying a tiny desert rodent that's adapted to survive both acute and chronic dehydration.

6 Sep 2018

Innovative questionnaire reveals most common symptoms reported by people with kidney disease

A team of researchers from Leicester has developed an innovative questionnaire which helps to shed light on the most common symptoms reported by people suffering from kidney disease.

4 Sep 2018

Millions of people do not receive NHS Health Check that helps spot diabetes

Recent analysis from Diabetes UK shows that less than half of over 40s eligible for an NHS Health Check in the last five years have actually received one.

31 Aug 2018

New technique enables people with spinal-cord injuries to restore significant bladder control

More than 80 percent of the 250,000 Americans living with a spinal cord injury lose the ability to urinate voluntarily after their injury. According to a 2012 study, the desire to regain bladder control outranks even their wish to walk again.

22 Aug 2018

Federal grant extends and expands research into acute kidney failure

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has renewed a grant shared by the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine that will extend and expand research into acute kidney failure, or acute kidney injury, which affects about 1.2 million hospitalized patients per year and kills 70 to 80 percent of patients in intensive care units who develop the disease.

22 Aug 2018

Researchers receive multi-million-dollar grant to expand kidney research

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine have received renewed grant funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to expand research into the areas of acute kidney failure and acute kidney injuries.

21 Aug 2018

Researchers focus on uncoupling obesity from diabetes

About 422 million people around the world, including more than 30 million Americans, have diabetes. Approximately ninety percent of them have type 2 diabetes. People with this condition cannot effectively use insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas that helps the body turn blood sugar into energy.

15 Aug 2018

Advances in treating hep C lead to new option for transplant patients

After her kidneys failed from the same illness that took the lives of her mother and brother, Anne Rupp went on dialysis in May 2016, spending three hours a day, three times a week undergoing the blood-cleaning procedure. She hated it.

13 Aug 2018

MSU researchers uncover the effects of aging on regenerative ability of kidneys

Autophagy is a process of destruction and processing of damaged cell components by the cells themselves. It is used by a cell to clean itself of excessive organelles and sometimes for self-execution. This adaptive mechanism supports a healthy phenotype on the cellular level.

13 Aug 2018

Otsuka’s JINARC approved for treatment of patients with CKD stage 4 ADPKD

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd. today announced that the European Commission has approved an extension of indication for JINARC to include adult patients with CKD stage 4 Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease

2 Aug 2018

Researchers investigate how nephrologists should discuss treatment options with older patients

Kidney specialists differ in their approaches to treatment decision-making with older patients with kidney failure, with many nephrologists not describing conservative management and some limiting patients' role in decision-making, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

27 Jul 2018

Researchers explore why heart failure and kidney disease correlate

People with chronic kidney disease are at unusually high risk of also developing cardiovascular disease; in fact, a patient with non-dialysis kidney disease is more likely to die of heart failure than to develop end-stage kidney failure.

24 Jul 2018

AbbVie submits supplemental NDA to FDA for venetoclax to treat acute myeloid leukemia

AbbVie, a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced it submitted a supplemental New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for venetoclax in combination with a hypomethylating agent or in combination with low-dose cytarabine for the treatment of newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukemia who are ineligible for intensive chemotherapy.

20 Jul 2018

Kidney Failure News and Research

UNH researchers aim to better understand dehydration and help humans survive it

Innovative questionnaire reveals most common symptoms reported by people with kidney disease

Millions of people do not receive NHS Health Check that helps spot diabetes

New technique enables people with spinal-cord injuries to restore significant bladder control

Federal grant extends and expands research into acute kidney failure

Researchers receive multi-million-dollar grant to expand kidney research

Researchers focus on uncoupling obesity from diabetes

Advances in treating hep C lead to new option for transplant patients

MSU researchers uncover the effects of aging on regenerative ability of kidneys

Otsuka’s JINARC approved for treatment of patients with CKD stage 4 ADPKD

Researchers investigate how nephrologists should discuss treatment options with older patients

Researchers explore why heart failure and kidney disease correlate

AbbVie submits supplemental NDA to FDA for venetoclax to treat acute myeloid leukemia

Research reveals long-term efficacy of drug used to treat common cause of kidney failure

Okayama University research could improve prognosis of diabetic kidney disease

New study suggests testing urine and blood serum as better way to diagnose myeloma

Inhibiting immune-regulating molecule could prevent or reverse renal injury, research shows

Newer anticoagulant may be safer for dialysis patients with Afib

New tests accurately detect heart disease and adverse cardiac events in diabetic patients

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