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New Urinalysis Strip

These strips provide nine tests to detect and monitor kidney disease across the continuum of patient care. They can be used on Siemens’ CLINITEK Status® analyzer or the CLINITEK Advantus™ analyzer in ...

Medical Engineering |

Study suggests a little milk could go a long way for your heart

Grabbing as little as one glass of lowfat or fat free milk could help protect your heart, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers found that adult...

Studies and Analyses |

New means of protection against sepsis

Sepsis remains the main death cause in clinics of intensive therapy despite many years of scientists’ continuous research. In the USA and European countries, sepsis develops annually with over 500,000...

Life Sciences |

Sticking with guidelines for acute coronary syndromes benefits even very elderly patients

Some say age 90 is the new age 70. If so, there's never been a better time for elderly patients to discuss with family and physicians just how aggressive medical care should be in case of a threa...

Health and Medicine |

Laser Goes Tubing for Faster Body-Fluid Tests

The technique tests urine and blood serum for common chemicals important to monitoring and treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular, kidney, urinary and other diseases, and lends itself to the develop...

Life Sciences |

Alternative kidney test reveals hidden health risks

Elevated blood levels of the protein cystatin C accurately predict higher risk of chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, and death among elderly people with no known kidney problems – risks t...

Health and Medicine |

Double transplants may offer one solution to short supply of donated kidneys

Transplanting a pair of kidneys with limited function into one patient can be just as successful as the standard procedure in which a patient receives a single kidney, according to new ...

Health and Medicine |

Predicting cardiovascular problems in liver transplant patients

New study finds PROCAM and SCORE most accurate Two methods of assessing a patient’s risk of cardiovascular events--SCORE and PROCAM--proved more valuable for liver tra...

Health and Medicine |

New kidney test better elder mortality predictor

Test for protein cystatin is a more accurate predictor than standard test for creatinine, especially for cardiac risk A study at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SF...

Studies and Analyses |

Matching method helps doctors successfully transplant higher-risk kidneys

By carefully matching the estimated function of kidneys from deceased donors with the needs of potential recipients, surgeons can successfully transplant kidneys that would otherwise be discard...

Health and Medicine |

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