Chronic kidney disease associated with increased risk of death regardless of ageNews-Medical.netA new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium found that chronic kidney disease a…
Donna Martineau is undergoing a kidney transplant surgery today. A close friend, Jeanette Smith, is donating one of her kidneys and both were expected to come through their surgeries by late today.
Junk food meals up heart attack riskTimes of IndiaEating even a single junk food meal can be enough to raise the risk of suffering a heart attack, cardiovascular disease or stroke in later life, new study led by an Indian-origin researcher has warned. …
Moneycontrol.comObese teens more prone to kidney diseaseTimes of IndiaTeens in the study who were overweight at age 17 were three times more likely to have end-stage renal disease (ESRD) over the next 25 years, compared with the general population, acc…
The Age'Brain-dead' definition flawed, says ethicistThe AgeA spokesman for the intensive care society that establishes the brain death criteria (ANZICS), Associate Professor Bill Silvester, said Professor Tonti-Filippini was wrong, and potentia…
The deadly dilemmaSydney Morning Herald (blog)Tonti-Filippini and Tibbals back the existing legal definition of brain death, which is the irreversible loss of all brain function (or the irreversible cessation of circulation). They say it requires an im…
Sports and entertainment personalities to be roped as ambassadors for organ …The Star Online"We are currently in the process of identifying sports and arts personalities who are also well known for their social work to be appointed as organ dona…
Obese teens at risk of kidney failure in later life: studyBusiness Standard… in later life: study. Press Trust of India / London October 30, 2012, 17:55 … Researchers found that overweight teenagers had six times the risk of developing end-stage re…
LOS ANGELES – David Trujillo’s torso is a web of scars. Shunts in his arms, hoses in his stomach, garish gashes left from biopsies and scalpel incisions. In the summer when he goes shirtless, people often stare. Sometimes, to lighten the mood, he
Bob Anderson and his wife, Kari, share a moment while discussing their plight because of his lung disease and prospects for a lung transplant in California after more fund raising to help defray expenses.