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Bacille-Calmette-Guerin Non-Responders: How to Manage
What treatment alternatives are available for bladder cancer patients who have failed bacille-Calmette-Guerin therapy?
Herbs for Uric Acid
Excess uric acid is the culprit in developing gout, a form of arthritis. Gout is caused by uric acid collecting in your joints. This causes pain and swelling in the joints like the big toe. Normally uric acid is excreted by the body through urine. Purines are absorbed from food and turn into uric ac
Rituximab for Minimal Change Disease in Adults
How safe and effective is rituximab for minimal change disease?
Culture, Religion and Truth Telling at the End of Life
How should clinicians go about discussing end of life issues, and how do they tailor the discussion to meet the religious and cultural needs of their patients?
How to Disolve Kidney Stones
The human body contains two kidneys that regulate electrolyte levels, as well as filter out waste and toxins from the blood, carried out by urine. Kidney stones are crystallized urine, also known as renal calculi. Having kidney stones causes pain through the ureters (the tubes where urine passes),
Diseases Caused by Raccoons
Raccoons spread viruses, parasites and bacteria to humans.raccoon image by masteraz from Fotolia.comRaccoons often easily make their way into city and suburban life. Not only are they getting into your trashcans at night, but they are posing a potential health hazard to you and your...
Should Anticoagulation Be a Part of Priapism Shunting?
These two cases illustrate the need for perioperative anticoagulation therapy in men undergoing priapism shunting procedures.
Hepatorenal Syndrome: A Cause of Kidney Failure in Cirrhosis
How does hepatorenal syndrome develop, and what are the most effective ways of managing it? This new study looks at the options.
Reasons for Loss of Bladder Control While Sleeping
There are a number of causes for loss of bladder control while sleeping. They include relatively benign causes like anxiety or a reaction to medication to more serious conditions like infections or cancer. Doctors can usually diagnose the problem through a simple test or series of tests.
Urine Incontinence: What Women Need to Know
Urine Incontinence: What Women Need to Know. Getting a grip on urine incontinence is doable.
Complement in Kidney Disease: Core Curriculum 2015
What role does the complement system play in the pathogenesis of various kidney diseases?
Home Cure for Urinary Tract Infections
A urinary tract infection (UTI) occurs when bacteria gets into the urinary tract. The most common way bacteria enters the urinary tract is through sexual intercourse. While a UTI can affect any part of the urinary tract, it most commonly affects the bladder and the urethra. Symptoms of the infectio
Military Women's Urinary Complications in Deployment Settings
Austere deployment environments are generally characterized by lack of privacy; crowded living arrangements and unsanitary conditions. How do these stresses impact elimination in female soldiers?
Difference Between Renal Failure & Prerenal Failure
Damage to your kidneys can happen over days or years. Kidney failure occurs from injury or medical conditions. Prerenal failure can be reversed. Renal failure can be slowed, but not reversed.
Spleen Problems & Symptoms
In humans, the spleen is about five inches long and weighs about six ounces. The spleen is part of the lymphatic system. It contains the largest collection of lymphoid tissue in the body.
Meat Diet for Chronic Kidney Disease
The main function of the kidneys is to remove wastes and excess water from the blood. The kidneys allow us to consume all kinds of foods, drugs, vitamins, additives and fluids without having to worry about toxic byproducts that can build to harmful levels. Healthy kidneys process close to 200 liter
Benefits and Harms of Phosphate Binders in CKD
Can phosphate binders be used to control serum levels in chronic kidney disease patients?
Accountable Care Organizations and ESRD: The Time Has Come
What are accountable care organizations, and how could they potentially change the delivery of kidney disease care in the United States? This new article explains.
Reducing Uric Acid
Uric acid is a natural substance found in the body. It is produced when the body breaks down or digests foods that are high in purine (like mackerel, liver and sardines). The uric acid travels through the bloodstream to the kidneys where it is excreted as a waste product. Elevated levels of uric aci
Is AKI Worse Than a Heart Attack?
Heart attacks are serious, but Lynda Szczech explains why acute kidney injury may be even worse.