Latest Kidney transplantation Stories

Former patients and System One dialyzors to share experiences achieving work-life-dialysis balance with NxStage therapy LAWRENCE, Mass. and SEATTLE, March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ADC 2013 Booth 417 -- NxStage® Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced that it will host a special educational event at the 33(rd) Annual Dialysis Conference (ADC) on Sunday, March 10, 2013 featuring celebrity and former NxStage System One(TM)...

Kidney Diet Secrets is a new e-book created by Rachelle Gordon, who promises to give people the kidney disease diet to help them cure kidney diseases such as kidney failure, diabetic kidney illness or kidney stones. A full Kidney Diet Secrets review in a series of health reviews shows if the method is useful for people to use. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) March 07, 2013 Kidney Diet Secrets is the newly updated program designed by Rachelle Gordon, who promises to give people the kidney disease...

Dialysis Patient Citizens, DPC Education Center and the Shad Ireland Foundation Combine Efforts to Improve Patient Quality of Life WASHINGTON, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC), the DPC Education Center and the Shad Ireland Foundation (SIF) are proud to announce a new partnership effort aimed at empowering dialysis patients and improving patient quality of life. Under this new partnership, the organizations will collaborate on innovative and...

Steroids do not prevent this antibody-mediated injury and rejection Highlights: -Pediatric kidney transplant recipients who have antibodies directed against their new organ are more likely to experience kidney injury and rejection than patients without these antibodies. -Steroids do not prevent this antibody-mediated injury and rejection. -Approximately 2,500 children received a kidney transplant last year in the United States. A transplanted kidney has a finite life expectancy...

NEW YORK, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- March is National Kidney Month and the National Kidney Foundation is urging all Americans to give their kidneys a second thought and a well-deserved checkup. Kidneys filter 200 liters of blood a day, help regulate blood pressure and direct red blood cell production. But they are also prone to disease; 1 in 3 Americans is at risk for kidney disease due to diabetes, high blood pressure or a family history of kidney disease. There are...

ENUMCLAW, Wash., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 4, 2013, Northwest Kidney Centers will open a new dialysis clinic in Enumclaw, the 15th center for the 51-year-old nonprofit health care provider. Northwest Kidney Centers Enumclaw at 857 Roosevelt Ave. E. will include five dialysis stations to serve 30 patients. Hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 5 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The new center brings dialysis services...

EAST HANOVER, N.J., Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Novartis announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Zortress(®) (everolimus) for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in adult patients receiving a liver transplant. Zortress is the first mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor approved for use following liver transplantation. It is also the first immunosuppressant approved by the FDA in over a decade for use following liver...

Global Community Communications Publishing releases The Sharp End of the Needle by Gabriel of Urantia, a must-read for anyone on dialysis or with any life-threatening illness, from a writer who went through it and can identify with what they are going through. The book offers hope through this trauma in their lives and insight into the medical system and how to prepare for the challenges they will face. Tubac, Arizona (PRWEB) February 13, 2013 "God, why is this happening to me?"...

Renal Program implements mobile solution for staff safety for Home Dialysis Schaumburg, IL and Mississauga, ON (PRWEB) February 12, 2013 Trillium Health Partners is a leading hospital with an outstanding record of performance, fiscal responsibility and quality patient care. The hospital encompasses three main sites – Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga Hospital, and Queensway Health Centre – offering the full range of acute care hospital services, as well as a variety of...

KANSAS CITY, Kan., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- While flowers, dinner and chocolate work as gifts for some couples this Valentine's Day, one Kansas City couple had a very unique gift experience. Taesha Benson granted her boyfriend, Travis Spire-Sweet, the ultimate gift of love: her left kidney. Travis, an acupuncturist, had suffered chronic kidney problems since birth. Having been born with only 25 percent of a functioning kidney, Travis wasn't expected to live past his first...