Nephron Information Center News Center

Last updated June 29, 2006 09:12:57 GMT.

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• New AAKP Team to Focus on Public Policy Issues Affecting Kidney Patients
• Nephron Info Center creates interactive form for evacuees
• DaVita announces disaster hotline is 1-800-400-8331
• Comics helps patients prepare for hurricane evacuation
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• Physical activity helps reduce blood pressure
  
• Parents who smoke may raise child's leukemia risk
  
• One in five Britons die of respiratory disease
  
• China "professional" wet nurse feeds moral outrage
  
• CDC warns of measles risk with travel to World Cup
  
• Amphetamines added to NFL steroid policy
  
• Roger Valine Joins DaVita Board of Directors
  
• Hindu-Muslim 'kidney conversion'
  
• An altruistic donor Kidney transplant swap saves three lives.
  
• Aksys Names Howard J. Lewin as CEO
  
• Mayo Researchers Discover Immune System Blocker at Work in Kidney Cancer
  
• Fluimucil Reduces Kidney Failure in Primary Angioplasty
  
• Customer To Donate Kidney To His Limo Driver
  
• Antioxidant May Prevent Kidney Damage, Study Finds
  
• UT's Kainer finds his kidney match: his dad
  
• Proteon gets patent on hemodialysis drug
  
• Inexpensive Test Predicts Kidney Cancer Spread
  
• Walk builds awareness of kidney foundation
  
• Uganda: Kidney Failure On the Rise
  
• Panel rejects bid for dialysis center
  
• Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Summer Meeting Being Held at CDC
  
• World-first triple transplant performed in Sydney
  
• CDC Urges Awareness of Measles in Americans Returning from Germany
  
• UK Kidney disease sufferers to receive uniformed treatment nationwide
  
• Asahi Kasei to Release Digital Filing System for Dialysis ...
  

Clinical Nephrology

• Regular checkup helps prevent kidney diseases
  
• Hindu-Muslim 'kidney conversion'
  
• Health workers promote prevention, early treatment of renal ...
  
• An altruistic donor Kidney transplant swap saves three lives.
  
• Mayo Researchers Discover Immune System Blocker at Work in Kidney Cancer
  
• Fluimucil Reduces Kidney Failure in Primary Angioplasty
  
• Customer To Donate Kidney To His Limo Driver
  
• Antioxidant May Prevent Kidney Damage, Study Finds
  
• UT's Kainer finds his kidney match: his dad
  
• Renal Solutions Announces Addition to Board of Directors
  
• Inexpensive Test Predicts Kidney Cancer Spread
  
• Walk builds awareness of kidney foundation
  
• Uganda: Kidney Failure On the Rise
  
• UK Kidney disease sufferers to receive uniformed treatment nationwide
  
• Zo's Comeback From Kidney Disease Culminates In NBA Title
  
• Scottish Chronic kidney disease guidelines to be outlined
  
• Docs left needle on kidney
  
• BELIZE KIDNEY ASSOCIATION TO HOLD FIRST SYMPOSIUM
  
• Targeted Drugs Take Aim at Kidney Cancer
  
• New procedure reduces pain, recovery in kidney transplant
  

Medicare and Policy

• Some don't see mom as a criminal for seeking alternatives
  
• Roger Valine Joins DaVita Board of Directors
  
• Rituxan® Plus Methotrexate Reduced Joint Damage In Rheumatoid ...
  
• Regular checkup helps prevent kidney diseases
  
• OregonLive.com
  
• New Systems Designed to Measure Disease Activity and Disease ...
  
• Mother snatched baby from hospital after battling doctors, state ...
  
• Mother held in kidnapping to be released
  
• Maryville College student donates kidney to Louisville minister
  
• Katu.com
  

Financial

• Roger Valine Joins DaVita Board of Directors
  
• Amgen's Aranesp Shows More Promise
  
• Amgen Anemia Drug Falls Short in Study
  
• Merck says diabetes drug on par with standard care
  
• Nabi nabs Ivax VP for CFO role
  
• NIH Scientist's Pfizer Links Probed
  
• Merck doubles its stake in Schering
  
• Challenges confront Merck despite Gardasil approval
  
• Pfizer Fired Up Over Smoking-Cessation Drug
  
• DaVita Opts Not to Refinance Credit Line
  
• Merck To Showcase Diabetes Treatment Data
  
• UK agency warns on Abbott, J&J glucose meters
  
• DaVita set to acquire Conn. dialysis clinic
  
• Research Chief Stirs Up Merck By Seeking Aid From Outsiders
  
• Q&A: Merck's Peter Kim
  
• Pfizer unit draws bids of $14 bln, higher-sources
  
• GSK, J&J and Reckitt in Pfizer unit race
  
• Amgen, Mass. General Settle Dispute
  
• GPC Biotech Says New Clinical Data On Satraplatin Appears To Be ...
  
• DaVita Provides Clarification On More Frequent Dialysis - Quick ...
  

Pharma

• FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Triaminic Vapor Patch
  
• FDA Approves Wellbutrin XL for Seasonal Depression
  
• FDA Strengthens Efforts on Unapproved Rx Drugs
  
• Advisory on Mercury in Seafood Still Current
  
• Results of PERSIST study with oral levosimendan
  
• Quintiles Asia Pacific Receives Frost & Sullivan Awards
  
• Incyte to Present at Needham Conference
  
• Alliance for Biosecurity Participating in Briefing on Capitol Hill to Mark Introduction of New Biodefense Legislation in Congress
  
• Online Course Will Offer Insight on How Gender Influences Health
  
• FDA Allows Withdrawn MS Drug Tysabri to Be Marketed Again With Restrictions
  

Science

• Making the most of a little DNA
  
• Brazilian outbreak raises fears over disease preparedness
  
• Science in thrall to football
  
• PAMELA, or virtue rewarded
  
• Nanoparticles in sun creams can stress brain cells
  
• More meteorites on Mars
  
• African leaders say yes to more fertilizer for farmers
  
• Tiny dino discovered
  
• Harvard enters human stem-cell race
  
• RNA therapy tackles eye disease
  
• Fungus eats enduring plastic
  
• Transgenic drug gets the go-ahead in Europe
  
• Senior sperm have dodgier DNA
  
• Green research base to be built in Antarctic
  
• Baby's first microbes sized up
  

Technology

• Medicare billings now reported on federal Web site
  
• Effect of pre-treatment with catecholamines on cold preservation and ischemia/reperfusion-injury in rats.
  
• More doctors can use computers, gaps remain
  
• New technique to create genetically modified chickens
  
• Health Affairs Web Exclusive Examines Drug Effectiveness Project ...
  
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Big Pharma's Nurse Will See You Now
  
• Group pushes electronic health records
  
• GPC Biotech Says New Clinical Data On Satraplatin Appears To Be ...
  
• Genentech, OSI say drug combo prolongs survival
  
• MIV Therapeutics' Breakthrough Vascular Stent Coating Technology Receives Key Independent Endorsement in New Scientific Study; Independent Research Confirms Primary Safety and Biocompatibility Attributes of Company's Patented HAp Coatings
  

Medicine

• Why are some men more aggressive than others?
  
• Vitamin A deficiency linked to earlier gut surgery
  
• Untreated aneurysms don't often cause distress
  
• Trafficked women's symptoms akin to torture victims'
  
• Superbug outbreaks linked to unlicensed tattooing
  
• Physical activity helps reduce blood pressure
  
• Parents who smoke may raise child's leukemia risk
  
• One in five Britons die of respiratory disease
  
• Nicotine metabolizes faster in women than in men
  
• Most employers cutting retiree health care: study