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Metformin Appears To Be Safe And Effective In Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease

Metformin Appears To Be Safe And Effective In Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease

Highlights: Scientists evaluated the use of metformin in diabetes patients with moderate-to-severe chronic kidney disease A lower than usual dose appears to be effective in ...

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British Society of Rheumatology Publishes Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Treatment Guidelines

British Society of Rheumatology Publishes Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Treatment Guidelines

Highlights: The British Society of Rheumatology has published guidelines for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune condition T...

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Novel Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Fluid Benefits Chronic Kidney Failure Patients

Novel Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Fluid Benefits Chronic Kidney Failure Patients

Highlights: Alanyl-Glutamine containing peritoneal dialysis fluid receives orphan drug designation in patients suffering from chronic kidney failure. Reduces the r...

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Kidney Failure Prediction Tool To Speed Up Transplantation Process

Kidney Failure Prediction Tool To Speed Up Transplantation Process

Highlights : Kidney failure risk equation (KFRE) can be used to predict kidney failure in children with kidney disease. KFRE has a high degree of accuracy and could be used to ...

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Salk Scientists Tweak CRISPR for Epigenetic Therapies in Diabetes, Kidney Disease and Muscular Dystrophy

Salk Scientists Tweak CRISPR for Epigenetic Therapies in Diabetes, Kidney Disease and Muscular Dystrophy

Highlights: Gene editing systems work by creating DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) However, these DSBs can have unwanted side effects CRISPR/Cas9 system has evol...

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Small Molecule AC1903 Stops the Progression of Kidney Disease in Animal Models

Small Molecule AC1903 Stops the Progression of Kidney Disease in Animal Models

Highlights: Researchers from the Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School haves identified a small molecule which stops the prog...

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Kidney Dysfunction Increases The Risk of Diabetes

Kidney Dysfunction Increases The Risk of Diabetes

Highlights: Kidney diseases may increase risk of diabetes. Higher levels of blood urea nitrogen heighten the risk for diabetes. Blood urea level builds up when kidney function ...

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DNA Sequencing To The Rescue in Diagnosing Chronic Kidney Disease

DNA Sequencing To The Rescue in Diagnosing Chronic Kidney Disease

Highlights DNA sequencing could soon become part of the routine diagnostic workup for patients with chronic kidney disease. DNA sequencing could identify the genetic cause of ...

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First Kidney Transplant in Tanzania By Indian Doctors

First Kidney Transplant in Tanzania By Indian Doctors

Highlights The kidney transplant is the first-ever to be conducted in Tanzania, Africa. The surgery was carried out on a 30-year-old Tanzanian woman who was suffering from e...

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TCA Cycle Metabolites Found to be Altered in Chronic Kidney Disease

TCA Cycle Metabolites Found to be Altered in Chronic Kidney Disease

Highlights In chronic kidney disease, A group of molecules called Tri-Carboxylic Acid (TCA) cycle metabolites are found to be affected The TCA cycle is a process in which fuel m...

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Tolvaptan Use in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease

Tolvaptan Use in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease

Highlights: Tolvaptan in its clinical trials that lasted over a period of one year, in patients with later-stage autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease showed a decline...

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Nonvitamin K Anticoagulants Promise Better Kidney Protection to Warfarin

Nonvitamin K Anticoagulants Promise Better Kidney Protection to Warfarin

Highlights Atrial fibrillation patients could be less prone to kidney damage with non-vitamin k anticoagulants Decline in kidney function is very common among atrial fibrillation...

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FDA Approved Drug, Sunitinib can Prevent Recurrence of Advanced Renal Cell Cancer

FDA Approved Drug, Sunitinib can Prevent Recurrence of Advanced Renal Cell Cancer

Highlights: Sunitinib has been granted approval by the US FDA to reduce the risk of recurrence of renal cell carcinoma following surgery in adult patients at a high risk of ...

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Enhancing Kidney Supply Through Geographic Sharing

Enhancing Kidney Supply Through Geographic Sharing

Highlights: Geographic sharing of kidneys increases kidney supply for transplantation. It also leads to stronger intent for the organ. Under the current organ allocation policy...

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Non-invasive Detection of Kidney Transplant Infection

Non-invasive Detection of Kidney Transplant Infection

Highlights: Nuclear medicine based test may enable non-invasive detection of kidney transplant infection. This test enables direct visualization of infiltrating leukocytes in rena...

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