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Dudley Improves Renal Patient Management Via Long-term MES Partnership
Russells Hall Hospital, part of The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is benefiting from greater efficiency in renal patient management with the installation of new specialist software. The eMEDRenal application from Mediqal H.I. was installed as part of Dudley's 15-year IT services Managed Equipment Service (MES) agreement with Siemens Healthcare. Siemens Healthcare and Mediqal H...
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Just Drop It: The One-Size-Fits-All Approach To Blood Sugar Control, That Is
Aggressive blood sugar control does not improve survival in diabetic patients with kidney failure, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results suggest that physicians should individualize blood sugar targets for these patients and not rely on recommendations based on studies in the general population...
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Kidney Injury Prevention May Be Possible: Watch For The Warning Signs
Reduced kidney function and protein in the urine place a person at risk for kidney injury, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The results suggest that improved recognition of these warning signs could help reduce preventable forms of acute kidney injury (AKI)...
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Scientists For The First Time Identify Cell-Of-Origin For Human Prostate Cancer
UCLA scientists have identified for the first time a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer, a discovery that could result in better predictive and diagnostics tools and the development of new and more effective targeted treatments for the disease...
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Belly Button Surgery For Kidney Cancer
Surgeons at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine continue to advance minimally-invasive surgery for cancer patients by reducing the number of abdominal incisions from approximately six to a single small incision...
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT
DeCODE Shows How Genetic Risk Of Kidney Disease Frames Response To Environmental Risk Over Time
Scientists at deCODE genetics and colleagues at Radboud University in the Netherlands describe how the impact of a single letter variation in the sequence of the human genome (SNP) conferring risk of kidney disease varies with age and with the onset of other diseases...
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT
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