Countries must act locally to reduce the global health burden caused by diabetic kidney disease, according to an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Prof Robert Atkins, Head of Kidney Disease Prevention at Monash University, Melbourne, and Prof Paul Zimmet, Director Emeritus...
While the majority of children who were affected by consuming toxic melamine-contaminated products in China recovered, kidney abnormalities remained in 12% of the affected children, according to an article in CMAJ. In 2008, melamine-contaminated dairy products from the Sanlu Dairy Company...
I had my first kidney attack months ago. They said I have three more in there.
My lower left side of my back kind of has this pinching pain and down by my left lower side of my pelvic bone thing I have that feeling too. I know last time I had cramps on my lower back then got WORSE AND...
I have had a kidney infection for over 3 weeks now, and it is getting worse and worse. I am now on my third round of antibiotics and nothing has helped me. I cannot keep ANY food or drinks down, severely sweating (but NOT hot), chills, dizzy, weak, no appetite, shaking, loosing weight FAST (21...
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have found a way to reverse resistance to sunitinib, a treatment that is currently the first line of defense against clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), a deadly form of kidney cancer. Most patients who show a positive response to sunitinib...
Researchers using a DNA analysis tool developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and UCLA have identified genetic markers that could help treat chronic kidney disease among diabetics. Study results, published in the December edition of Diabetic Medicine, show it is...
Okay so I've had a kidney disease for a year and I havn't had any problems since. My doctor says I am healthy and have very good blood pressure. I have a party Friday with Alcohol and I'm not sure if I should drink? If I can though I kind of want to drink alotttt. I am on Enalapril right now and...
antibiotics suppose to kick in? I was diagnosed with a UTI last Monday and people that I have been talking to said that the antibiotics are suppose to kick in between 48 to 72 hrs. Well in a span of three days it got worst, but I figured that I needed to take all the antibiotics for it to go a...
i kinda worried i hade a sign of a uti and four days later i went to the doctors it came out negative,now i hade a uti for the first time last year that left my bed and scream pain for 3 days until i got to see a doctor,my family history doesn't have anything with kidneys problems
but i was...
2 years ago, I had a fever for about a week, went to the hospital and was told it was a kidney infection, got iv antibiotics and was okay.
I had a slight fever a few days ago, on and off, and frequent urination, a daily headache on my left side by my eye, felt dizzy and nauseous on and off...
This morning, I woke up with a pain that I know was a kidney stone. I've had four of them before (I'm 20) and I know the pain when I get it. But it wasn't excruciating as usual and the pain varied throughout the day. But once it was mid-afternoon, blood started coming out of my urine: it was...
I would like to know if there's a woman out there who has experienced both and if they really are equally painful???
The reason I ask is because I have had kidney stones continuously for about 4 years and I've had doctors tell me that many women compare that pain to childbirth. While the kidney...