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New markers for acute kidney injury reported
Medical Xpress Saeed A. Jortani, Ph.D., associate clinical professor in the University of Louisville’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, headed up one of three labs in the United States involved in determining two new markers for acute kidney injury (AKI). |
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Chronic kidney disease creates ‘Island Of Widows’ In Nicaragua
VOXXI This unfortunate name comes with a morbid backstory: 1-in-3 men, mostly sugar cane workers, suffer, and eventually die, from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). What’s worse, the disease is absolutely curable yet nothing is being done to prevent these deaths. |
Mother, son share heart failure, transplantsInsurance News Net (press release)March 01 –The Kurtyka family has learned to weather crises and celebrate life at every turn. While heart disease has ravaged the health of mother and son, both transplant re…
New York Daily News |
Ralph Bahna, former TWA and Cunard executive, dies of heart failure
New York Daily News Ralph Bahna, 71, a former TWA and Cunard executive who expanded business travelers’ options as the Club Quarters hotels founder and Priceline.com Inc. chairman, died Monday. Bahna of Stamford, Conn., died of heart failure at New York-Presbyterian … |
UC heart failure unit expanding at new locationCincinnati.comIn the past, patients could not have ultra-filtration done at the center, but were sent to the cardiovascular recovery unit in another section of the hospital, said Chrissy Netzell, operation…
Mother, son share heart failure, transplantsDaily PressTheir heart odyssey started in April 2011, when Diane, now 60, had a crisis after almost 20 years of controlling congestive heart failure with medications. For more than eight months she survived o…
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Heart failure
DhakaTribune The heart’s function is to pump blood through the blood vessels of the body up to the last tributaries and bring back blood from the body to the heart, the main pumping station. When the heart fails to pump blood adequately, enough to meet the … |
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Sentara Heart is enrolling heart failure patients in a national study of …
Daily Press (blog) Sentara Heart Hospital in Norfolk is one of 40 sites testing an investigational parachute-shaped device to improve heart function. The PARACHUTE IV trial is for those with congestive heart failure in those who’ve suffered a heart attack. To date, 7 … |
The Province |
Devo guitarist Bob Casale dies of heart failure at 61
The Province NEW YORK — Bob Casale, the guitarist for Devo, best known for the 1980 hit “Whip It,” has died of heart failure, his brother and band member Gerald Casale said Tuesday. He was 61. Devo founding member Casale said in a statement that his younger … |
MedscapeScreening for Chronic Kidney Disease: Time to Say NoMedscapeChronic kidney disease (CKD) is common and often asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. Yet CKD is associated with substantial increases in the risk for cardiovascular (CV) events and …