All Articles Tagged As: kidney disease

Scientists study acute infection in end-stage kidney disease patients (11/14/2008)

New research could see a decrease in the rates of treatment failure among patients with end-stage kidney disease ...> Full Article

MYH9 gene variations help explain high rate of kidney disease in African-Americans (11/1/2008)

Possible new approaches to screening and prevention in African-American families ...> Full Article

Gaining a Better Understanding of Kidney Diseases (9/7/2008)

By introducing a genetic switch in mice it is possible to increase or decrease the production of specific protein molecules in their kidneys ...> Full Article

Scientists discover new link in pathway to cancer: hope for drug design (8/30/2008)

Scientists have identified an exciting connection between a cell's extracellular environment and the activity of a signaling pathway molecule that controls the development of organs and tissues, as well as cancer and kidney disease. ...> Full Article

Clinical study to examine role of vitamin D in kidney disease (8/29/2008)

Scientists suspect vitamin D may also play a role in heading off atherosclerosis in people with chronic kidney disease. ...> Full Article

Researchers Unravel Key Mechanism of Cellular Damage in Aging and Disease (7/28/2008)

Researchers have taken a first snapshot of how a class of highly reactive molecules inflicts cellular damage as part of aging, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease and Alzheimer's disease to name a few. ...> Full Article

Scientists Discover How Cells Move a Critical Protein (6/16/2008)

Researchers have found the pathway through which a signaling protein called Smoothened (Smo) can move into the primary cilium, a discovery that could eventually translate into therapeutic treatments for cancer. ...> Full Article

Kidney Cysts: Not All Created Equal (1/19/2008)

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered a window in kidney growth that affects the onset of polycystic kidney disease and can mean, in mice, the difference between developing severe cystic disease early in adolescence or late in adulthood. ...> Full Article

Chronic kidney disease in the U.S. appears to be increasing (11/9/2007)

The estimated prevalence of chronic kidney disease among adults in the U.S. has increased to 13 percent, in part because of the increase in diabetes and hypertension, according to a study in the November 7 issue of JAMA. ...> Full Article

Preliminary research suggests frequent hemodialysis at night may improve some outcomes for patients with end-stage kidney disease (9/19/2007)

Patients who received hemodialysis at night six times a week for treatment of end-stage kidney disease had improvements on certain outcomes, including reduced need for blood pressure medications and improvement in selected quality of life measures, compared to patients who received conventional hemodialysis three times weekly ...> Full Article

Lowering homocysteine levels does not improve outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease (9/16/2007)

Patients with end-stage kidney disease treated with high doses of folic acid and B vitamins to lower homocysteine levels did not have improvement in survival or reductions in the incidence of vascular events, according to a study in the September 12 issue of JAMA. ...> Full Article

Molecular Mechanism Of Common Forms Of Kidney Disease Identified (8/7/2007)

Enzyme causes protein to leak from blood into urine, changes to target may restore kidney function ...> Full Article

A Gene That Protects From Kidney Disease (7/15/2007)

A combination of mice and patient studies sheds light on cause and possible new therapies of kidney diseases ...> Full Article

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease And Kidney Disease (6/14/2007)

Anemia and other conditions related to chronic kidney disease are independently associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease; conversely, heart disease is associated with a decline in kidney function and the development of kidney disease, according to two reports in the June 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. ...> Full Article

Dietary Supplementation With Enzyme Reverses Some Kidney Disease (6/7/2007)

Marjan Huizing and colleagues from the National Human Genome Research Institute report the first kidney disease caused by a genetic defect in the production of sialic acid. Remarkably, they show that, in mice, disease symptoms can be reversed by addition of a precursor of sialic acid, raising the intriguing possibility that dietary supplementation in this manner may have therapeutic benefit for patients with certain forms of kidney disease. ...> Full Article

Twin Studies Reveal Genetic Components (4/20/2007)

Daniel O’Connor, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has studied about 265 twin pairs over the past few years, which has led him to some surprising discoveries. ...> Full Article