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Renal News
Money... or your life
Date: 16 July
Source: stuff.co.nz
There have been times during Paul Campbell's illness that he has put his family's needs ahead of his own health. "I have had to put off going to the doctor or getting prescriptions because I've had a power bill to pay or food to put on the table," Mr Campbell said.
Skinner meets with Monaro health professionals
Date: 14 July
Source: ABC News
The State Opposition has chosen the Monaro in South East New South Wales as the first region to host a series of discussions on regional health.
Dialysis agreement ineffective for SA: UnitingCare
Date: 13 July
Source: ABC News
A South Australian community service organisation says a deal done between South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory on dialysis is forcing people from remote South Australia to travel hundreds of kilometres for treatment.
Indigenous patients forced to move for dialysis treatment
Date: 8 July
Source: ABC News
Indigenous Australians with kidney disease are being forced to live in motel rooms, thousands of kilometres from their homes, to receive treatment. Indigenous people are five times more likely to have kidney disease than other Australians and in some Aboriginal communities the rate of kidney disease is 20 times that of the national average.
Nurses ruled out for Cooma dialysis unit
Date: 6 July
Source: Cooma Monaro Express
Member for Monaro Steve Whan has ruled out any plans to staff the renal dialysis unit at Cooma Hospital in the near future. Cooma-Monaro Renal Dialysis Group has called on the state and federal government to staff the self dialysis unit at Cooma Hospital.
Heart patients with transient kidney dysfunction have no serious complications
Date: 2 July
Source: News-Medical.net
New research led by UC Health cardiologists shows that while short-term worsening kidney function is frequent among patients with heart failure, these patients also have better outcomes than those who have persistent kidney failure.
Father donates kidney to son
Date: 30 June
Source: Tweed Daily News
THEY say blood is thicker than water, but for one Tweed father and son, the connection will soon run even deeper. Young Nicholas Shugg, 11, was born with small and misshapen kidneys, a problem discovered when he was seven months old and not thriving when introduced to solid foods.
A Little help towards dialysis understanding
Date: 29 June
Source: NT News
ICONIC indigenous musician Jimmy Little is starring in a new health campaign to encourage renal patients in communities to use a new "at home" dialysis treatment.
Dialysis a long way from home
Date: 27 June
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
HEALTH experts are calling for a co-ordinated national approach to kidney dialysis after some patients travelling long distances for treatment - because of a lack of rural facilities - were involved in car accidents.
Gout drug benefits kidney disease patients
Date: 26 June
Source: Virtual Medical Centre
A drug commonly used to treat gout may help maintain kidney disease patients' health, according to an analysis appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). The research is the first to show that allopurinol treatment in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) decreases inflammation, slows the progression of kidney disease, and reduces patients' risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event or being hospitalised.
Patients travel for dialysis
Date: 26 June
Source: Fraser Coast Chronicle
MARYBOROUGH dialysis patient Lorraine Reid feels worn out by what she's been through in the past two weeks. She was so unwell on June 12 that she did not get on the bus that ferried her and other patients to Gympie for dialysis.
Massachusetts man uses front lawn billboard to advertise for kidney
Date: 19 June
Source: Herald Sun
A MASSACHUSETTS man is advertising for a kidney with a billboard on his front lawn. Mark Wolper, of Swampcott, is also taking other desperate measures in his search to find a donor, myFOXboston.com said.
Bill proposes assistance for organ donors
Date: 18 June
Source: Otago Daily Times
A private member's Bill proposing increasing the Government assistance to live kidney or liver tissue donors has been welcomed by Kidney Health New Zealand's medical director, Prof Kelvin Lynn.
Barnes-Jewish performs successful heart-kidney transplant
Date: 18 June
Source: HealthCanal.com
Washington University surgeons performed the first combined heart-kidney transplant at Barnes-Jewish Hospital June 2 and 3 on Jonathan Sadowski, 20, of O'Fallon, MO. Sadowski was discharged from Barnes-Jewish Hospital June 14.
Implications for reducing clotting in kidney disease dialysis and sepsis
Date: 17 June
Source: News-Medical.net
The interaction of the drug compstatin with two ancient, co-evolved human systems points to new ways for reducing clotting during dialysis for end-stage kidney disease and multiple organ failure due to sepsis, a dangerous whole-body inflammatory response to infection.
Wagga renal unit gets upgrade
Date: 16 June
Source: ABC Online
Work has begun on upgrades at the Wagga Base Hospital's renal dialysis unit. The Greater Southern Area Health Service says the $1.165 million upgrade will be finished in October and the works will not disrupt renal services at the hospital.
Plea for organ donors
Date: 7 June
Source: cairns.com.au
HOW do you convince people to donate organs when they prefer to be buried whole when they die? That is one of the major issues facing health professionals trying to solve high rates of kidney disease in the Far North's indigenous communities.
Greatest gift of all: dad gives son lifesaving kidney
Date: 2 June
Source: The Manly Daily
TEN years ago guests to the first birthday of Nicholas Shugg arrived armed with cheque books and wallets to help raise money for Sydney Children's Hospital's renal ward. The ward had cared for Nicholas since he had been diagnosed with congenital renal hypoplasia - small and misshaped kidneys - and where he spent much of the next five years undergoing tests and treatments.
Dialysis is big drain on patients
Date: 1 June
Source: Fraser Coast Chronicle
THE SAPPING trek to Gympie starts at 6.30am this morning for Lorraine Reid when she is picked up at her Tinana home. All going well, the 64-year-old will get home about 3.30pm after sitting through five hours of dialysis treatment.
Researchers identify pattern of gene expression in kidney transplant recipients who don't need anti-rejection drugs
Date: 31 May
Source: News-Medical.net
Researchers have identified a distinct pattern of gene expression in the largest reported group of kidney transplant recipients who have not rejected the transplant kidneys even though they stopped taking anti-rejection drugs. This finding may help identify other transplant recipients who could safely reduce or end use of immunosuppressive therapy. In 2008, more than 80,000 people in the United States were living with a kidney transplant.
UK kidney transplant first
Date: 28 May
Source: The Age
BRITISH surgeons are celebrating after a father successfully received a kidney from his daughter - despite them having different blood groups.
Dialysis for district
Date: 25 May
Source: Manawatu Standard
Rangitikei District's population base could be the top drawback to getting help from Mid Central Health toward a mobile renal unit.
Sending patients to Waikato still preferred dialysis option
Date: 24 May
Source: Gisborne Herald
TAIRAWHITI could be the last Midland region to get a satellite renal dialysis centre despite more than 30 people using the service and an obvious growing need.
Dialysis analysis condemns government
Date: 25 May
Source: ABC Online
Advocates for kidney patients have used Kidney Health Week to accuse the State Government of neglecting renal health. The Government says more than 18,000, or one in six adult Tasmanians suffer from kidney disease and they used yesterday's launch of the national Kidney Health Week to urge all Tasmanians to get their kidneys checked.
Dialysis patients 'left to die'
Date: 24 May
Source: The Cairns Post
CAPE York dialysis patients say they are being left waiting to die in Cairns motel rooms for up to five years because the vital care they need has been ripped from their communities.
eGFR as valuable as Ccr as an indicator of preoperative renal function in gastric cancer patients
Date: 21 May
Source: News-Medical.net
The creatinine clearance (Ccr) test has been used as a gold standard for evaluation of preoperative renal function in patients with gastric cancer. However, it is known that Ccr is not strictly equivalent to glomerular filtration rate (GFR). It has been accepted that estimated GFR (eGFR) is equal to measured GFR in chronic kidney disease. However, there have been no studies regarding the reliability of eGFR as a preoperative renal function test in gastric cancer patients. A research article to be published on May 21, 2010 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question.
Big effort: kidney disease can't stop James
Date: 21 May
Source: Warrnambool Standard
TWO hundred games is a huge achievement for any young footballer but it's even bigger for James Cook. He may seem like it but he's not your typical teenager. The 16-year-old was born with polycystic kidney disease, which sees faulty genes cause cysts to grow in the kidneys.
Kidney problems no bar to a good life
Date: 20 May
Source: Mornington Peninsula Leader
WITH a quick wit and a ready smile, Rye RSL barman Steve Robinson is a favourite with the regulars. But behind the dodgy jokes and the good natured teasing is man who continues a brave battle against kidney disease.
Clinical Trial Examines Gene Therapy for Dialysis Patients
Date: 19 May
Source: HealthCanal.com
A new gene therapy may help sustain dialysis access in patients, eliminating the need for multiple interventions and surgeries and improving their quality of life.
Dialysis for Wairoa
Date: 17 May
Source: Gisborne Herald
Wairoa will get a community-based dialysis centre as early as August, with help from the Hawke's Bay District Health Board, while renal patients in the Tairawhiti District Health Board area might have to wait another three years for a similar service in Gisborne.
Cruising perfect for dialysis patients
Date: 15 May
Source: The Australian
FOR the many haemodialysis patients in Australia, travel is difficult and can be dangerous. But Heather Bailey and her husband Cam, a dialysis patient, believe cruising is the perfect escape route.
Row prompts review of dialysis services
Date: 11 May
Source: The Australian
DIALYSIS services for kidney patients in Central Australia are to be scrutinised in a joint governmental review following a barrage of criticism over indigenous patients being turned away from Alice Springs. The review, to be conducted by the commonwealth in conjunction with the governments of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia, will seek to work out ways to avoid making patients travel thousands of kilometres away from their homes to receive kidney treatment.
Refusal to travel will spell death
Date: 8 May
Source: Fraser Coast Chronicle
YESTERDAY an old professional fisherman slept fitfully in his Urangan home, with what is left of his life slipping away because he has decided not to travel to Brisbane three times a week to get dialysis treatment – one of the few options open to him.
New pressure on dialysis unit
Date: 1 May
Source: Gympie Times
MARYBOROUGH dialysis patients, forced to travel to Gympie for treatment, have presented Member for Gympie David Gibson with what will be the biggest paper petition presented to Queensland Parliament so far this year.
Cross-border dialysis agreement reached
Date: 1 May
Source: IBT Health
Based on the results of a study, no single medication is responsible for the higher risk of cancer observed among patient who have received immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant.
Vitamin B shows renal and vascular toxicity
Date: 28 April
Source: 6minutes.com.au
High doses of B vitamins may harm the kidneys and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, and they should not be used to reverse high homocysteine levels, US researchers say today.
Cross-border dialysis agreement reached
Date: 26 April
Source: ABC News
The Northern Territory Government says it has reached an agreement with the South Australian and Western Australian Governments so that dialysis patients from those states will be able to be treated in Alice Springs.
Support aired for renal centre plan
Date: 22 April
Source: ABC News
The Dubbo City Development Corporation (DCDC) has come up with a proposal for a renal dialysis centre of excellence.
Farewelling body parts 'would help Maori donors'
Date: 9 April
Source: stuff.co.nz
Holding ceremonies to farewell body parts has been suggested to address lagging Maori organ donation rates. Otago University masters student Jennifer Ngahooro, whose study focuses on Maori organ donation, has proposed measures to increase Maori donation rates.
NZ's organ donor rate worst in Western world
Date: 8 April
Source: 3news.co.nz
Organ transplant experts struggling with a shortage of donors are looking at increasing payments to encourage more people to donate a kidney.
Kidney patients seek donors online
Date: 8 April
Source: TVNZ
Doctors say New Zealanders desperate for kidney transplants are using the internet to buy organs from third world countries.
Renal doctor to front Patel trial
Date: 8 April
Source: ABC News
The director of renal medicine at the Bundaberg Base Hospital in southern Queensland is expected to continue giving evidence at Jayant Patel's Brisbane manslaughter trial today.
Dialysis snub to leave patients 'dying prematurely'
Date: 5 April
Source: ABC News
A Senate committee has been told renal patients from the Central Desert are likely to die prematurely and painfully because they cannot get treatment close to where they live.
Wait over as transplant op nears
Date: 3 April
Source: Gympie Times
KEN Edridge isn't your regular looking angel, but as far as his partner Michelle is concerned, an angel is exactly what he is. When Michelle Nicoll met Ken at a Gympie pub about 18 months ago, she didn't tell him at first that she was suffering from kidney disease.
New index developed to determine risk of death in patients with end-stage kidney disease
Date: 1 April
Source: News-Medical.net
A new clinical prediction index has been developed to determine the risk of death in patients with end-stage kidney disease considering transplantation, states a Research article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Dialysis group seeks fully staffed unit
Date: 30 March
Source: Cooma-Monaro Express
WITH the help of members of the University of the Third Age a campaign has once again been sparked to have a fully staffed facility for renal dialysis at the Cooma Hospital.
Diabetes a disaster for Indigenous Australians
Date: 25 March
Source: ABC Online
TONY EASTLEY: Aboriginal leaders say diabetes is the number one health issue affecting Indigenous Australians. Half of all Australia's Indigenous people either have type-2 diabetes or they have a condition known as pre-diabetes.
Westmead hospital's 100th kidney transplant given to Currans Hill toddler
Date: 24 March
Source: Camden Advertiser
THE Children's Hospital at Westmead has just celebrated a milestone in its history: its 100th kidney transplant. Marcus Browne, 2, from Currans Hill, is pictured with Dr Albert Shun, who performed the operation on him.
Life and death in dialysis dispute
Date: 23 March
Source: ABC News
Imagine you come from a remote Aboriginal community. You are old and sick and have been told you need kidney dialysis or you will die. If you're from one of the many communities just outside the Northern Territory border in South Australia, you might have expected to get treatment at the hospital in Alice Springs, 1000 kilometres closer to home.
Caught up in dialysis feud: patients turned away
Date: 20 March
Source: The Australian
TRAVELLING with colleagues to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands last week, I heard tragic stories resulting from the Alice Springs Hospital turning away dialysis patients who live close to Alice Springs but in South Australia.
Indigenous health gets $1m donation
Date: 15 March
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Pharmaceutical body Medicines Australia is donating $1 million accrued from fines to boost indigenous health in remote communities.
Life-changing gift inspired
Date: 15 March
Source: Otago Daily Times
Hitching a ride to Dunedin with her best friend's husband inspired Jane Blair to donate a kidney. And she is happy about that life-changing gift.
Promise of work that led to kidney theft
Date: 13 March
Source: The Age
The thick scar on Mohammad Salim's side is a permanent reminder of the kidney stolen from his body. But deeper wounds show in his eyes. Salim, a poor labourer from the northern Indian town of Meerut, was lured to Delhi on the promise of work two years ago. Instead, his kidney was removed at gunpoint.
New renal unit set to open doors
Date: 12 March
Source: ntnews.com.au
A NEW $16.7 million, 12-station dialysis renal unit is to open in Alice Springs in May. It will provide treatment for an additional 48 patients. Work has also begun on expanding the Tennant Creek dialysis unit by eight stations.
Health group warns of a 'renal tsunami'
Date: 11 March
Source: ABC News
Australia is facing a "renal tsunami" because of government bickering, according to the Northern Territory Aboriginal health organisation, AMSANT.
Brotherly act donates a kidney, saves a life
Date: 8 March
Source: Waverley Leader
WHEN Ken Pedlow went for a routine blood pressure check in 1994 he was expecting the standard response that “everything was fine”. Instead, six years later the Glen Waverley resident found himself hooked up for dialysis for a deteriorating kidney condition.
Health overhaul won't help dialysis patients: Abbott
Date: 4 March
Source: ABC News
The Federal Opposition says Kevin Rudd's hospital reforms will not fix the dialysis stoush that is affecting patients in Central Australia.
High hopes for dialysis patients
Date: 3 March
Source: Fraser Coast Chronicle
THEY will have him in their sights today but whether the Minister for Health can deliver to Maryborough's dialysis lobby was unknown last night.
Australians caught up in 'Dr Horror' kidney racket
Date: 2 March
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
AUSTRALIA has been dragged into an investigation of an Indian medic known as ''Dr Horror'' who is accused of running illegal clinics that duped poor labourers into selling their kidneys and then peddled them to wealthy clients.
Territory guarantees dialysis
Date: 27 February
Source: The Australian
THE Northern Territory government has moved to allay concerns that interstate patients needing life-saving dialysis are being turned away from its hospitals, saying all urgent cases will continue to be treated.
Survival rates for dialysis patients rise
Date: 25 February
Source: ABC Online
A rise in the survival rates of Northern Territory dialysis patients is proof the Government is improving the lives of Indigenous Territorians, the Health Minister, Kon Vatskalis, says.
Elder may die for lack of dialysis
Date: 24 February
Source: The Australian
THE South Australian government is continuing to refuse to fund the renal dialysis of remote patients in Alice Springs, leaving senior community leaders such as Nura Ward with few options but to return to her lands to die.
'I'm crying': dialysis patient forced interstate
Date: 23 February
Source: ABC News
A senior woman from the remote South Australian community of Ernabella is the latest renal patient to be knocked back for long-term dialysis treatment in Alice Springs.
NZ breakthrough in transplant test
Date: 18 February
Source: NZ Herald
In a world first, University of Otago researchers have developed a simple urine test to detect whether transplanted kidneys are failing.
Renal unit granted $1.165 million
Date: 12 February
Source: Daily Advertiser
DONNA Baddelly is one patient who could not hide her smile at the announcement the Wagga Base Hospital renal dialysis unit will receive $1.165 million in additional funds. Ms Baddelly has been accessing the vital service for the past four years, and yesterday declared the funding was "badly needed" due to cramped and antiquated conditions and the lack of patient privacy.
Moss Vale dialysis patients given a medical runaround
Date: 10 February
Source: Southern Highlands News
THREE times a week Barbara and Philip Clarke would wake up at 4am to travel 130km one-way for dialysis. The Moss Vale couple travelled to Concord Hospital for the past nine months so Barbara could receive her treatment.
MP pushes hospital's dialysis capacity
Date: 10 February
Source: ABC Online
Independent MP Chris Foley says Maryborough Hospital in south-east Queensland is being under-utilised in its capacity to treat dialysis patients in the region.
A bit more of Dad than most
Date: 9 February
Source: Gisborne Herald
FOR the Tamihana-Brown family, 2010 has started with a happy ending and a new beginning. On December 9, Tammy Tamihana-Brown was given the gift of life . . . a kidney from her father Sam.
Indigenous patients in limbo over dialysis row
Date: 6 February
Source: ABC Online
South Australian Aborigines are travelling hundreds of kilometres away from their communities for renal dialysis because of an impasse between the South Australian and Northern Territory Governments.
Incompatible kidney surgery a world first
Date: 5 February
Source: news.com.au
A NEW blood freezing technique has enabled a UK woman to donate an "incompatible" kidney to her sister, saving her from probable death, Sky News reported today.
Dialysis still inadequate
Date: 4 February
Source: Forbes Advocate
Up to four patients from Forbes will still be making the trip to Orange to access dialysis services despite Monday's funding announcement, according to the Shadow Health Minister Jillian Skinner.
Renal unit kicks off $22.5m care centre
Date: 28 January
Source: Tasmanian Examiner
THE Kings Meadows renal unit will be officially opened today as part of the $1 million redevelopment of the Launceston Community Health Centre.
Meet Queenstown's ultimate volunteer
Date: 28 January
Source: scene.co.nz
Derek O'Connell is Queenstown's ultimate volunteer. He'll give a helping hand throughout golf's New Zealand Open – then give up a kidney to his seriously ill brother.
End-of-life care falls short for kidney disease patients
Date: 20 January
Source: Virtual Medical Centre
Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) often do not receive adequate end-of-life care and are unhappy with the medical decisions made as their conditions worsen, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that end-of-life care should be improved to meet the needs of CKD patients.
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