Sentences with phrase «medicine for kidney disease»

«If a company has a new medicine for kidney disease they would want to test for suPAR, because it will tell you which patients are most vulnerable to the disease.»

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Led by Stella K. Kang, a radiologist with the Department of Radiology at the New York School of Medicine, the study was designed to compare the effectiveness of a treatment algorithm for small renal tumors incorporating the nephrometry score, a renal tumor anatomy scoring system developed by urologists, with the current standard of uniformly recommended partial nephrectomy in patients with mild - to - moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD).

The results of the study, published in a research article in the journal Nature Medicine, could lead soon to new treatments for chronic kidney disease that target these risk factors, according to Dr. Jochen Reiser, the senior author of the paper.

His current research portfolio focuses on the investigation of novel approaches for the regenerative medicine of the kidney, including the study and characterization of human nephrogenic progenitors and the investigation of approaches for the treatment of Alport syndrome and other chronic kidney diseases.

The fact that the TCA cycle is significantly impacted in chronic kidney disease supports the view of CKD as a state of mitochondrial dysfunction, said study senior co-author Kumar Sharma, M.D., FAHA, chief of nephrology and founding director of the Center for Renal Precision Medicine at UT Health San Antonio.

Click to view article: College of Medicine receives $ 1.8 million to study mentoring program for chronic kidney disease

4/17/2007 Twin Studies Reveal Genetic Components Leading To Cardiac and Kidney Disease Studies may point to new drug targets for heritable conditions 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 year... More...

«The development of a functional human kidney glomerulus chip opens up an entirely new experimental path to investigate kidney biology, carry out highly personalized modeling of kidney diseases and drug toxicities, and the stem cell - derived kidney podocytes we developed could even offer a new injectable cell therapy approach for regenerative medicine in patients with life - threatening glomerulopathies in the future,» said Ingber.

«We are very eager to develop new treatments for diabetic kidney disease,» says George King, M.D., lead author of the study, and chief scientific officer, head of the Dianne Nunnally Hoppes Laboratory for Diabetes Complications and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

People who aim for — and achieve — such intensive glucose control are much less likely to lose their vision, have kidney failure, develop heart disease, or need an amputation than those who don't, according to a study published Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine.

In Brazilian herbal medicine, acai fruit is used to treat diarrhea, jaundice, skin ulcers, and fever, while in the Peruvian Amazon it is used for malaria, diabetes, liver disorders, hair loss, hemorrhage, and kidney diseases, as well as menstrual and muscle pain.

Dandelion a traditional medicine that has been in use by many cultures around the world, like the Native American Iroquois, Ojibwe, and Rappahannock, who used it to treat kidney disease, upset stomach, and heartburn, or by Arab people as a treatment for liver and spleen - related illnesses.

Just to give you some more kind of physiological reasons for why some of this might be happening, a New England Journal of Medicine study back in 1972 reported that the less salt people ate, the more their kidneys produced something called renin, which is a type of hormone which sends off a cascade of events which ends up in increasing our risk of heart disease.

As veterinary internal medicine specialists, we provide advanced evaluations for pets with weight loss, vomiting, diarrhea, heart disease, coughing, kidney and liver disease, urinary incontinence, urinary tract infections, immune - mediated diseases and anemia.

The internal medicine specialists at VSCT provide abdominal ultrasounds for liver, gall bladder, spleen, kidney, pancreatic and bladder problems; cardiac ultrasounds for heart and lung conditions; endoscopic procedures involving the lungs, stomach, small intestine, colon and nose; and treatment for endocrine problems such as diabetes mellitus, Cushing's disease, Addison's disease and hyperthyroidism or infectious diseases such as Valley Fever.

Nuclear medicine scans can be used to evaluate for bone disease, portal shunts, thyroid, kidney, pulmonary, and liver abnormalities.

As board - certified veterinary specialists in internal medicine, we provide advanced evaluations for pets experiencing weight loss, vomiting, diarrhea, heart disease, coughing, kidney & liver disease, urinary incontinence, urinary tract infections, immune - mediated diseases anemia & other issues.

Dr. Fiocchi's research focused on the management of patients with chronic kidney disease for which she received the resident research award in nephrology and urology at the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum in June 2016.

Ultrasound is commonly used in both veterinary and human medicine for a wide variety of problems, including diseases of the liver, kidneys, bladder, stomach, intestines, pancreas, heart, and other organs.

She is interested in all aspects of internal medicine as well as clinical teaching, and has a passion for researching and managing kidney and lower urinary tract problems, diabetes mellitus, and other diseases.

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