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Renal News
Kidney disease may increase, says academic
Date: 29 August
Source: Otago Daily Times
Kidney disease poses a serious threat to the health of New Zealanders, leading United States kidney researcher Prof Jeff Sands says. The US, New Zealand and other developed countries faced an approaching obesity epidemic and a projected big rise in type 2 diabetes would increase kidney damage, Prof Sands said in an interview.
Candidate pushes for Esperance dialysis unit
Date: 29 August
Source: ABC Online
The Nationals' candidate for the Mining and Pastoral region, Wendy Duncan, has used the story of a 59-year-old Esperance kidney patient to highlight the desperate need for a dialysis unit in the town.
Need rises for dialysis centre in Gisborne
Date: 22 August
Source: Gisborne Herald
The number of Tairawhiti people requiring kidney dialysis has risen again, showing an increased need for a renal satellite dialysis centre in Gisborne. A total of 31 people now need continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), a dialysis treatment that requires patients to travel to Waikato Hospital for treatment. In April there were 29.
Board considering dialysis service for Kaitaia Hospital
Date: 19 August
Source: Northern Advocate
The long-and-winding road to dialysis services for patients living in the Far North's farthest reaches could be about to shorten. About 12 Far North patients make the up to 2-hour trek to Bay of Islands Hospital in Kawakawa for treatment several times a week.
Fibrosis drug could end dialysis: doctor
Date: 18 August
Source: ABC Online
Melbourne researchers have developed a drug that could prevent a condition associated with up to 45 per cent of diseases in the developed world.
After seven-year battle, regulator bundles out Baxter Healthcare
Date: 16 August
Source: The Age
THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has had success in its seven-year legal stoush with Baxter Healthcare over claims the company was abusing market power by bundling products it sold to state governments.
Car rally for kidney health
Date: 15 August
Source: Hawkesbury Gazette
DAVE Sheridan will continue a seven year long tradition when he buckles up for the 20th annual Kidney Kar Rally this Friday. The Box Hill resident will join 55 other vehicles leaving from Sydney on a whirlwind eight day driving adventure all in the name of raising money for chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Eight-year wait for transplant over
Date: 11 August
Source: Otago Daily Times
Out of the blue, the call came one morning in June. Arrowtown woman Kay Joyce was at work at Wakatipu High School's office when she took a phone call from her specialist to say he had a kidney for her.
Transplants trade at a crossroads
Date: 9 August
Source: The Australian
Jeremy Chapman, the director of renal medicine at Sydney's Westmead Hospital, says Australia is a "predator state" when it comes to the international trade in organs, and the aim must be for each country to meet its need for organs from within its own population.
Kidney failure '8 times as likely' for Indigenous people
Date: 6 August
Source: ABC Online
The Public Health Association says there is an urgent need for health initiatives and education about chronic disease and kidney failure in Indigenous communities.
Leeton is ruled out for renal patients
Date: 1 August
Source: The Irrigator
LEETON renal disease patients will have to continue to travel to Griffith in order to dialyse, with the service unlikely to be extended. Greater Southern Health Area Service has ruled out the implementation of a dialysis machine at Leeton District Hospital.
Plan to increase organ donations
Date: 4 August
Source: The Canberra Times
Canberrans will receive organ donation information with their driver's licence renewals in an effort to boost donor registrations. Minister for Health Katy Gallagher told the ABC yesterday that a member of the public had suggested the idea to her.
Emotional thanks for gift of a kidney
Date: 23 July
Source: The Canberra Times
Grandfather-of-four Ken Pert ended 22 years of searching yesterday, thanking in person the people who helped save his life. The 67-year-old Banks man and his wife Edna travelled to Adelaide to thank the couple who donated the kidney he received 22 years ago.
John Hill officially opens Maitland Hospital dialysis
Date: 22 July
Source: The Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Health Minister John Hill opened the new $66,000 dialysis service at the Maitland Hospital last Wednesday. "Unfortunately, renal disease is prevalent in many of our communities, and often is the cause of significant travel costs and social disruption for people," Minister Hill said. "This valuable asset is another example of the South Australian Government's commitment to providing service closer to home for country South Australians."
Indigenous kidney test
Date: 19 July 2008
Source: ABC Online
BRENDAN TREMBATH: Researchers in Darwin hope a new study will improve the early detection test for kidney disease among Indigenous Australians.
Researchers call for Indigenous kidney study participants
Date: 19 July 2008
Source: ABC Online
Researchers from the Menzies School of Health in Darwin are calling for participants for a new study into Indigenous kidney function.
Painkillers linked to kidney failure
Date: 16 July 2008
Source: news.com.au
POWERFUL painkillers containing codeine have been linked to dozens of fresh cases of bleeding stomach ulcers and renal failure, reigniting debate about abuse of the drugs.
Indigenous kidney disease estimates 'staggering'
Date: 13 July 2008
Source: ABC Online
Kidney Health Australia estimates up to 50 per cent of Indigenous people over 35 years old in the Northern Territory have kidney disease.
Kidney disease raises organ donor awareness
Date: 7 July 2008
Source: Dubbo Daily Liberal
For 15 hours a week, Chris Slapp's life revolves around sitting in a chair and receiving dialysis. Mr Slapp undergoes three five-hour sessions every Monday, Wednesday and Friday as he battles the debilitating disease carpal tarsal osteolysis syndrome, which has effectively shut down his kidneys.
$151m for organ donor program
Date: 2 July 2008
Source: The Australian
PATIENTS desperately awaiting an organ transplant will have a better chance of survival under a new national organ donation program, transplant groups say. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has committed $151 million over four years to a program to boost awareness and to better equip hospitals for organ transplants.
Kidney medication to be listed on PBS
Date: 29 June 2008
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
People with chronic kidney disease will benefit from changes to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), a medical expert says. The chronic kidney disease therapy, Sensipar, will be available to patients on dialysis from next week.
Bush cure grown for renal disease
Date: 27 June 2008
Source: The Australian
BUSH medicine will be used in Alice Springs to treat people with chronic kidney disease. A special garden created by the Alice Springs Desert Park will supply bush medicine to people relocated from remote communities to undergo lifesaving dialysis.
Dialysis unit by end of the year
Date: 27 June 2008
Source: The Manly Daily
A DELAY in installing a renal dialysis unit at Mona Vale Hospital means patients continue to have to make lengthy journeys for treatment. But the NSW Government has confirmed that work on a six-chair satellite renal dialysis unit at the hospital, which had funding approval in March 2006, will begin in the next few months.
Outback spider bite could cost tourist a kidney
Date: 25 June 2008
Source: news.com.au
A NORTHERN Territory holiday could cost a British tourist his kidney after he was bitten by a venomous spider in central Australia. Alex Cann, 39, was bitten by the spider while touring near Alice Springs last month.
Haemophiliac student dies after selling kidney
Date: 24 June 2008
Source: Herald Sun
A 22-YEAR-old Vietnamese man has died months after selling his left kidney in neighbouring China through an organ trading ring. University student To Cong Luan, who went to China last year and returned home in April in a vegetative state, died in his home town in southern Ninh Thuan province on Saturday, the Thanh Nien (Young People) daily said.
Transport for dialysis
Date: 24 June 2008
Source: Cooma Monaro Express
NSW Health Minister Reba Meagher and the Member for Monaro Steve Whan delivered some good news for kidney dialysis patients in Cooma when they arrived in town on Friday afternoon to make a long-awaited announcement on the issue.
Mudgee Mud hits the road
Date: 23 June 2008
Source: Mudgee Guardian
Sixty vehicles will take part in the 20th Kidney Kar Rally from Sydney to Mudgee via Mildura. The rally will run over eight days from August 15 to 23 and is expected to raise more than $300,00 for kidney patients and sponsorship for Kidney Camps for Kids.
Minister's visit sparks hope for Cooma dialysis announcement
Date: 20 June 2008
Source: ABC Online
The New South Wales Health Minister will be on the Monaro today, raising hopes of an announcement about a possible dialysis facility being set up at Cooma.
Push to widen kidney disease checks
Date: 19 June 2008
Source: ABC Online
A health organisation hopes a pilot study into chronic kidney disease could lead to free kidney tests for the wider community. The study commissioned by BHP Billiton tested 400 of its workers for signs of kidney disease, at Roxby Downs, Perth and Townsville.
Maori woman breaks tradition with donation
Date: 16 June 2008
Source: The World Today, ABC Online
ASHLEY HALL: In New Zealand, a remarkable ceremony has taken place over the weekend. For years, Sydney man Roger Garraway was gravely ill with kidney disease. His father died from the disease and his twin brother also has it. In February, the 46-year-old's prayers were answered when a Maori woman defied her people's position on organ donation and gave him a kidney.
MP hits out over dialysis unit fiasco
Date: 15 June 2008
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
THE State Government's refusal to establish a renal unit in a southern NSW town has been described as "inhumane". Six residents of Cooma travel to Canberra for dialysis up to three times a week each. A local nurse also makes the trip to oversee the treatment of her six neighbours.
Kidney Kids project saves lives
Date: 10 June 2008
Source: Otago Daily Times
A can pull-tab is worth a second in the life of a child on a dialysis machine. That's the slogan adopted by the project Kan Tabs for Kidney Kids, which has won the support of southern Lions Club members.
MP calls for more kidney disease support
Date: 3 June 2008
Source: ABC Online
The Member for Wagga Wagga, Daryl Maguire, says the New South Wales Government has to do more for people suffering from chronic kidney disease. Mr Maguire says calls for a renal dialysis chair for Tumut and better accommodation facilities for travelling patients in Wagga Wagga have not been heard.
NT residents warned of high risk of kidney disease
Date: 31 May 2008
Source: ABC Online
Northern Territory residents are being warned they could have 90 per cent kidney failure before they realise anything is wrong. The warning from the NT Department of Health and Community Services comes at the end of Kidney Health Week.
Kidney dialysis 'near crisis'
Date: 30 May 2008
Source: Illawarra Mercury
Kidney patients are being kept alive with "patch-up" drug arrangements because there are not enough dialysis chairs in the Illawarra, health experts say. Ten people urgently need thrice-weekly dialysis but are instead relying on drugs that erode their appetites and leave them at risk of an early death, the experts claim.
Dialysis patients to benefit from new portable machines
Date: 29 May 2008
Source: ABC Online
Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital has unveiled a major breakthrough for kidney dialysis patients. For the first time in Australia they will be able to take home portable hospital-grade dialysis machines as part of their treatment.
Nelsonians to get free check-ups for killer diseases
Date: 26 May 2008
Source: stuff.co.nz
The entire population of the Nelson region will receive free doctor checks for killer diseases in a $4.5 million initiative which is a New Zealand first.
Petrol prices 'threatening rural dialysis patients'
Date: 25 May 2008
Source: ABC Online
Kidney Health Australia says the rising cost of petrol is threatening dialysis patients in regional Australia. Two thousand people across the country have to travel to dialysis three times a week.
Govts urged to act on kidney disease
Date: 24 May 2008
Source: ABC Online
Kidney Health Australia is urging state and federal governments to invest more money into detecting kidney disease. It is estimated that at least 40 Australians suffer kidney failure each day and one in three are at risk of developing the disease.
Opt-out scheme to slash costs
Date: 23 May 2008
Source: West Australian
Adopting an opt-out system of organ donation for 12 months would potentially save taxpayers more than $11 million in kidney dialysis costs over the next 15 years, according to one of WA's top transplant surgeons.
Renal move under fire
Date: 14 May 2008
Source: ABC Online
The South Australian Health Department has come under fire in a parliamentary committee over a multi-million-dollar decision to relocate a hospital renal unit.
Daughter’s gift of a life - a kidney
Date: 13 May 2008
Source: Victor Harbour Times
For 28-year-old Goolwa local Kylie Wingard, who had watched her father go through kidney problems since she was just five, the decision to donate one of her kidneys to him to save his life was an easy one.
Organ donor debate
Date: 12 May 2008
Source: Sky News
An Australian doctor has attracted criticism after calling for laws preventing the sale of organs to be overturned. Dr Gavin Carney, a Canberra-based kidney expert, said an organ trade would save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in care for sick patients.
Dying days for Pakistan's kidney tourist trade
Date: 12 May 2008
Source: The Age
THE billion-dollar kidney bazaar that once thrived in Pakistan has been shut down, forcing thousands of people to look elsewhere for a donor.
Please, buy my kidney to secure her future
Date: 6 May 2008
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
CRAIG GILL took "less than 30 seconds" to decide that he would sell his kidney to finance ballet lessons and a home deposit for his two-year-old daughter, Petal.
Dialysis call continues
Date: 7 May 2008
Source: Hornsby Advocate
A WESTLEIGH kidney transplant recipient has joined the campaign to have a dialysis centre established at Hornsby Hospital. Sue Zvirblis, who was on dialysis for ten months until she received the life-saving transplant in 2006, is circulating a petition for the service which was started by Mt Colah man Len Smart.
Push on for Gilgandra dialysis unit
Date: 6 May 2008
Source: ABC Online
There is a push to establish a dialysis unit in Gilgandra to service residents currently travelling to Dubbo to get treatment.
Govt vetoes kidney sales proposal
Date: 5 May 2008
Source: ABC Online
The Federal Government says it will not be adopting a proposal to offer up to $50,000 to buy kidneys from healthy people.
Donor miracle ends family curse
Date: 4 May 2008
Source: Herald Sun
A MOTHER who lost her husband to kidney disease has saved the life of their son by giving him a kidney. Devastated by the death of her husband of 32 years, Christine Miller spared their youngest child, Damian, the same fate.
Organ donors at record low
Date: 27 April 2008
Source: The Courier Mail
THE Queensland State Government will look at ways to make it easier for people to donate their organs and tissues to patients awaiting transplants.
No heparin problems in Australia: AMA
Date: 25 April 2008
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says there have been no problems with the blood-thinning drug heparin in Australia, despite the recall of batches of one particular heparin product.
Drug contaminant test 'nearer'
Date: 25 April 2008
Source: The Australian
A SIMPLE test to screen blood-thinning drugs for a dangerous contaminant linked to 130 deaths is closer to reality as overseas scientists have teased out the chemical structure of the impurity.
Dialysis unit seen as act of self-determination
Date: 24 April 2008
Source: ABC Online
The Central Land Council says a dialysis unit that will be built using money from mining royalties is a symbol of self-determination.
New hospital unit
Date: 23 April 2008
Source: Parramatta Sun
WESTMEAD Hospital's new kidney and transplant care centre was officially opened on Monday last week. The $6.5 million Centre for Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplant and Urology replaces Westmead's existing facilities and is purpose built for better patient care.
Patients reject move
Date: 16 April 2008
Source: Inner-West Weekly
PATIENTS and their families have held a protest over the closure of the haemodialysis unit at the Dame Eadith Walker Estate building in Concord.
Bush medicine soothes kidney patients
Date: 11 April 2008
Source: ABC Online
While kidney failure is taking many Aboriginal people away from their traditional country for treatment, a program in central Australia is helping bring the goodness of country back to the people.
Professor targets Indigenous kidney disease
Date: 11 April 2008
Source: ABC Online
A University of Queensland professor who has been awarded for her work into kidney disease hopes to develop early intervention programs to improve Indigenous health.
UQ kidney researcher attracts international medal
Date: 10 April 2008
Source: UQ Online
University of Queensland researcher Professor Wendy Hoy has been recognised internationally for her work on kidney disease. Professor Hoy has been awarded the United States National Kidney Foundation (NKF) International Distinguished Medal for 2008 at a ceremony in Dallas, Texas.
Renal unit in full operation
Date: 1 April 2008
Source: Bega District News
THREE renal chairs are now in operation at the Bega District Hospital. These chairs are funded at the moment for six people but will eventually be able to take 12.
Philippines suspends transplants to foreigners
Date: 1 April 2008
Source: Radio Australia
The Philippines has temporarily suspended kidney transplants to foreigners amid allegations that poor Filipinos are being duped into selling vital organs for a pittance.
Pioneer operation saves donated kidney
Date: 24 March 2008
Source: Timaru Herald
Life before his kidney transplant had been tough so when Colin Good was told last year the transplanted kidney had cancer he started thinking the worst.
Stressful wait for bed to be free at Starship
Date: 20 March 2008
Source: Gisborne Herald
A shortage of beds at Auckland's Starship Hospital is delaying a young Gisborne girl's access to the specialist care she needs and causing her family stress. Eleven-year-old Tammy Tamihana-Brown was diagnosed with chronic renal failure last Friday.
Twin risks life to save her sister
Date: 16 March 2008
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
SUSAN DAUNTON is awaiting the arrival from England of her twin sister with excitement, and fear. Ms Daunton, 62, suffers from an incurable disease, polycystic kidney disease (PKD), which requires dialysis sessions to help keep her alive.
Simple laboratory test predicts risk of kidney injury after surgery
Date: 13 March 2008
Source: News-Medical.net
A simple laboratory test may provide a new way for doctors to identify patients at risk of developing potentially severe acute kidney injury (AKI) after surgery up to three days before the problem would otherwise be detected, reports a pilot study in the May 2008 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Discovery could lead to much-needed kidney failure treatment
Date: 13 March 2008
Source: News-Medical.net
The unwanted activation of an important cell-signaling pathway may play a role in two kidney problems that are major causes of end-stage renal disease, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found.
Kidney cancer surgery often determined by surgeons' practice style, not medical factors
Date: 11 March 2008
Source: News-Medical.net
A new study reveals that the type of surgery a patient with kidney cancer receives depends more on the surgeon's preference than on the patient's tumor size, demographic characteristics, or general medical health.
Gisborne unit on horizon for kidney patients
Date: 4 March 2008
Source: Gisborne Herald
THE constant grind of travel to and from Hamilton might be over soon for Gisborne patients requiring kidney dialysis. Gisborne Hospital is being urged by the Waikato District Health Board to begin preliminary planning for a haemodialysis satellite centre.
Buy a kidney from Manila's poor or die
Date: 2 March 2008
Source: Herald Sun
AN Australian woman has paid $65,000 for the kidney of a poor Filipino father of three in a desperate effort to save her life. The pair had never met before they were wheeled into the operating theatre of a Manila private hospital specialising in kidney transplants.
Warning issued on kidney disease
Date: 1 March 2008
Source: ABC Online
A kidney health conference has been told the number of kidney disease sufferers in Australia could be largely underestimated.
Kidney donor age linked to aortic siffening
Date: 24 February 2008
Source: News-Medical.net
Transplantation of kidneys from older donors is followed by increased stiffening of the recipient's aorta - which may help to explain the higher rates of cardiovascular disease and death in patients receiving kidneys from "expanded criteria" donors, reports a study in the April Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Test for blood sugar not accurate in diabetic dialysis patients
Date: 21 February 2008
Source: News-Medical.net
The standard test for measuring blood sugar control in people with diabetes is not accurate in those on kidney hemodialysis, according to new research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Tubes, syringes on beach used for kidney dialysis
Date: 19 February 2008
Source: Gisborne Herald
The source of dialysis tubes and syringes found on Midway Beach at the weekend remains a mystery to Tairawhiti District Health medical officer of health Geoffrey Cramp.
Gift of life is surprisingly easy
Date: 19 February 2008
Source: Canberra Times
What kind of society would routinely bury or burn its most valuable resource rather than use it?
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