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Milestone reached with implantation of 1000th pump to ease congestive heart …
Houston Chronicle (blog) More than 6 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure―the inability of the heart to pump enough blood to other organs in the body. Almost 600,000 die annually from end-stage heart failure. When medications and pacemakers no longer … |
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Treating Chronic Kidney Disease Using Clay Minerals
Science Daily (press release) Jan. 15, 2014 — Clay has healing powers. This natural product is destined to help treat chronic kidney disease: a well-tolerated agent based on clay minerals lowers patients’ excessive phosphate levels. |
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ST2 Identifies Hypertensive Patients Likely to Develop Heart Failure
PharmiWeb.com (press release) Critical Diagnostics announced today that a paper titled “The Effect of Left Ventricle Remodelling On Soluble ST2 in A Cohort of Hypertensive Subjects” published in Journal of Human Hypertension showed that the Company’s biomarker ST2was useful in not … |
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Congestive Heart Failure Leads to Debilitating Fatigue; polyDNA Recommends …
PR Web (press release) An article written by Dr. Tina M. St. John MD, and published on August 16, 2013 on Livestrong.com said that “Among people with advanced heart failure, fatigue typically proves severe (1).” polyDNA reviews the literature and recommends Gene-Eden-VIR to … |
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MLHD’s renal plan tackling the Riverina’s high rates of chronic kidney disease
ABC Local The Murrumbidgee Local Health District is working to address the appallingly low rate of people using treatment for chronic kidney disease. Spokeswoman Jill Ludford says the MLHD’s Renal Clinical Services plan looks at increasing local services, access … |
Science World ReportLithium Treatment May Ease Acute Kidney InjuryRenal and Urology NewsThe mood stabilizer lithium promotes the recovery of renal function and repair in mouse models of acute kidney injury (AKI), according to a study published online i…
Science World ReportMood stabilizing drug helps acute kidney injury?WWSB ABC 7There are currently no effective therapies to treat acute kidney injury (AKI). However, a recent study has found that a mood stabilizer used to treat bipolar affective disord…
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Fight against organ failure advances
Medical Xpress Fight against organ failure advances. (Medical Xpress)—The findings of a 20-year project undertaken by scientists committed to developing improved treatments for chronic kidney disease reveal a significant advance in our understanding of organ failure. |
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Potential Approach to Prevent Infection in Patients With Liver Failure
Science Daily (press release) 9, 2014 — Findings published in the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases journal, Hepatology, indicate that infection, the commonest cause of mortality in patients with acute liver failure (ALF), may be decreased by inhibiting the … |
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US FDA clears Cardio3 BioSciences’ IND for CHART-2 phase III heart failure trial
pharmabiz.com The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the Cardio3 BioSciences’ Investigational New Drug (IND) application for clinical testing of the company’s proprietary regenerative medicine product C3BS-CQR-1 (C-Cure) as a treatment targeting … |