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Following CDC Protocols Cuts Dialysis Bloodstream Infections In Half
CDC provides tools to help all U.S...
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Consuming Less Sugar-Sweetened Beverages May Reduce Kidney Stone Risk
Twenty percent of American males and 10 percent of American females will experience a kidney stone at some point in their lifetime. Often, these patients will be advised to drink more fluids as a way to prevent future stone formation. Now, new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital finds that some beverages may be more helpful than others when it comes to preventing recurrent kidney stones...
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Robotic Kidney Transplants May Be Best Option For Obese Patients
Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System. The findings should allow more obese patients to receive kidney transplants...
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Early Stage Testicular Cancer - Surveillance Is Best Follow-Up Strategy
A long-term study of men with stage I seminoma, a common form of testicular cancer, suggests that surveillance for cancer recurrence, rather than additional chemotherapy or radiation therapy, is sufficient for the vast majority of patients who have undergone successful surgery for their cancer...
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Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Can Cause Osteoporosis
Androgen deprivation therapy is a common and effective treatment for advanced prostate cancer. However, among other side-effects, it can cause significant bone thinning in men on long-term treatment...
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Study Evaluates Long-Term Effectiveness Of Surgery For Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Results after seven years of follow-up suggest that women considering abdominal sacrocolpopexy (surgery for pelvic organ prolapse [POP]) should be counseled that this procedure effectively provides relief from POP symptoms; however, the anatomic support deteriorates over time; and that adding an anti-incontinence procedure decreases, but does not eliminate the risk of stress ur...
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Hearing, Vision Loss And Kidney Disease May Be Impacted By Cilia Research
Experiments at Johns Hopkins have unearthed clues about which protein signaling molecules are allowed into hollow, hair-like "antennae," called cilia, that alert cells to critical changes in their environments. Researchers found that the size limit for entry is much greater than previously thought, allowing most of a cell's proteins into cilia...
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Living Close To Major Road May Impair Kidney Function
May contribute to known impact of air pollution on heart disease/stroke risk Living close to a major road may impair kidney function - itself a risk factor for heart disease and stroke - and so help contribute to the known impact of air pollution on cardiovascular risk, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health...
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Antibiotic Coating Does Not Prevent Prosthetic Urinary Sphincter Infections
SAN DIEGO -- Contrary to what might be expected, adding an antibiotic coating to an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) does not decrease device-related infection rates, researchers announced at the 108th American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting...
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Disparities In Kidney Transplants For African-Americans
While the percentage of kidney transplants involving live donors has remained stable for other minority populations, African Americans have seen a decline in live donors even as more of them receive kidney transplants, according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Those findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association in San Diego...
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Bladder Cancer Could Reoccur Despite Bladder Removal
Patients with advanced bladder cancers that are surgically removed might need additional therapy to prevent recurrence in certain situations, a new UT Southwestern Medical Center study suggests...
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Bladder Cancer Deserves Urgent Attention
It is the 4th most common cancer in men[1] (and 11th in women), but bladder cancer remains an extremely low priority in the UK. Action on Bladder Cancer[2] (ABC) reports that almost half (45%) of the UK public do not know that even just one episode of blood in the urine, the most common warning sign, could mean bladder cancer...
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The Many Benefits Of Robot-Assisted Kidney Cancer Surgery Do Not Include Cost
Robot-assisted surgery to remove kidney cancers has seen a rapid increase in use, and has both replaced and proven safer than laparoscopic procedures for the same purpose, according to a study by the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit...
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Increase In Rate Of Complications Related To Kidney Stone Surgery
While the number of people - especially women - who have a minimally invasive procedure to remove kidney stones has risen in recent years, so has the rate of complications related to the surgery, according to a published study by Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The research, from Khurshid R. Ghani, M.D...
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Risk Of Death Has Decreased Substantially For Children Initially Treated With Dialysis For End-Stage Kidney Disease
In a study that included more than 20,000 patients, there was a significant decrease in the United States in mortality rates over time among children and adolescents initiating end-stage kidney disease treatment with dialysis between 1990 and 2010, according to a study in the May 8 issue of JAMA...
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$238 Million A Year In ER Costs Related To Diagnosis, Treatment Of Hematuria, A Common Outpatient Disorder
A relatively common urinary tract disorder that can usually be managed in an outpatient setting is adding an estimated $238 million a year to the cost of emergency room visits in the U.S., according to two new studies from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit...
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Kidney Disease In Canada: 12.5% Of Adults Afflicted, Yet Many Unaware
An estimated 12.5% of Canadians in Canada have evidence of chronic kidney disease, including people without risk factors such as high blood pressure and diabetes, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)...
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Exercise May Lower Older Women's Kidney Stone Risk
Exercise may lower older women's risk for kidney stones, according to a new study. The research was conducted by experts from the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, Georgetown University, and University of Washington School of Medicine who gathered and examined data from over 85,000 postmenopausal women in the U.S...
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AUA Releases New Clinical Guideline On Prostate Cancer Screening
Men ages 55 to 69 urged to talk with their doctors about benefits, harms of testing Men ages 55 to 69 who are considering prostate cancer screening should talk with their doctors about the benefits and harms of testing and proceed based on their personal values and preferences, according to a new clinical practice guideline released today by the American Urological Association (AUA)...
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Routine Prescribing Of Cinacalcet For End Stage Kidney Disease No Longer Warranted
Cinacalcet, a drug commonly given to patients with end stage kidney disease to help keep phosphorus and parathyroid blood levels within a target range and has few patient level clinical benefits and several adverse effects, suggesting that it should no longer be routinely prescribed, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine...
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