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Science Daily: Among those antioxidants is quercetin, especially abundant in onions and black tea, and ferulic acid, found in corn, tomatoes, and...

Medical News Today: Study leader, Dr. Duk-Hee Lee, Department of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, explains that POP...

RPA: Vascular Access Initiative: Background, Goals and Action Steps This document provides background on the scope of this problem, describes...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People with kidney disease are more likely to be added to the waiting list for a kidney transplant if they've had a...

A father and son team are spending the next 14 days hiking Mt. Kilimanjaro in Arusha, Tanzania to raise money for juvenile diabetes. Matthew R. Weir,...

Annals: Conclusion: A low-carbohydrate diet based on animal sources was associated with higher all-cause mortality in both men and women, whereas a...

AP: The gene, known as NDM-1, was found in a Japanese man in his 50s, Kensuke Nakajima said.Researchers say the gene — which appears to be...

Pr-Canada: Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: FME / New York Stock Exchange: FMS), the world's largest provider of...

FDA: RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER......Recalling Firm: Fresenius Medical Care North America, Waltham, MA, by letter on June 28,...

JASN early release: Symptomatic intradialytic hypotension is a common complication of hemodialysis (HD). The application of convective therapies to...

NY Times: hirty-eight end-stage renal patients, most of them illegal immigrants, would receive the dialysis they need to stay alive at no cost under...

EurekAlert: To cause an infection, bacteria must first adhere to a host, then gather together in colonies to form a biofilm. In the current study,...

EurekAlert: Olefsky and colleagues looked at cellular receptors known to respond to fatty acids. They eventually narrowed their focus to a G-protein...

UCLA: Lupus Research Institute-funded researcher Betty Tsao, PhD, at the University of California Los Angeles has discovered that humans—males in...

UCSF: The device, which would include thousands of microscopic filters as well as a bioreactor to mimic the metabolic and water-balancing roles of a...

EurekAlert: Published this week in Science the findings demonstrate that the antimalarial candidate, spiroindolone NITD609, is effective against both...

EurekAlert: "The efficiency of drug release in this study has also confirmed that one single dose a day is most likely enough in treating the...

Kidney transplants that show a combination of fibrosis (scarring) and inflammation after one year are at higher risk of long-term transplant failure,...

Individuals who received a non-kidney organ transplant in the past may be more likely to be listed for a kidney transplant prior to initiation of...

NEJM: Conclusions: In overall analyses, intensive blood-pressure control had no effect on kidney disease progression. However, there may be...