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What Is Causing the Kidney Stone Epidemic?
2014-07-10 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
io9: The number of people suffering from kidney stones has grown over the past thirty years, and a new study shows it's likely to get worse. Here's why. Pediatric urologist Gregory Tasian and his team analyzed over 60,000 medical records of people with kidney stones in major cities throughout the U.S. What they found was that people were more likely to develop the painful calcium deposits (pictured above) in their kidneys when average temperatures rose over 50 degrees. In fact, many cases of kidney...
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Will a warmer climate mean more kidney stones?
2014-07-10 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Medical Press: Add another possible woe to the growing list of consequences of climate change: Kidney stones. A new study of American cities suggests that rising temperatures may increase the number of people who develop the painful urinary obstructions. "These findings point to potential public health effects associated with global climate change," study leader Dr. Gregory Tasian, a pediatric urologist and epidemiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a hospital news release. His...
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Go Orange - And Shine Light on Kidney Disease
2014-03-12 05:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Victor, New York – March is National Kidney Month, and Bulb Direct is donating 100 orange light bulbs to support the National Kidney Foundation’s “Shine Light on Kidney Disease” prevention and awareness program. Each bulb will be used to swap out one regular light bulb in a local home or business in Western New York to raise sensitivity to the growing prevalence of chronic kidney disease. Orange is the signature color of the National Kidney Foundation.<br /> <br ...
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La Jolla Pharma's drug improves kidney function in mid-stage study
2014-03-11 03:09:13| Biotech - Topix.net
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co said its experimental drug to treat chronic kidney disease met the main goal of improving kidney function in a mid-stage study.
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Family in botched kidney transplant appears on GMA
2013-08-31 00:51:21| Appliances - Topix.net
The brother and sister at the center of a botched kidney transplant at UTMC spoke out for the first time on ABC's Good Morning America.
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