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Last updated Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:03:04 -0600 GMT.

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• Dialysis questions come on World Kidney Day (www.poconorecord.com)
  
• Lower HDL-C and apoA-I are related to higher glomerular filtration rate in subjects without kidney disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Cardiovascular Complications in Diabetic Kidney Disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Diabetic kidney disease: act now or pay later. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Northwest Kidney Center helps battle disease (news.google.com)
  
• Perioperative Mortality and Long-term Survival Following Live Kidney Donation [Original Contribution] (jama.ama-assn.org)
  
• Efficacy of Rosuvastatin Among Men and Women With Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease and Elevated High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein A Secondary Analysis from the JUPITER (Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention-an Intervention Trial Evaluating R (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Urine Microscopy Is Associated with Severity and Worsening of Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized Patients (cjasn.asnjournals.org)
  
• Understanding Sources of Dietary Phosphorus in the Treatment of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (cjasn.asnjournals.org)
  
• The effect of paricalcitol and cinacalcet on serum phosphate, FGF-23 and bone in rats with chronic kidney disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• World Kidney Day --- March 11 (www.cdc.gov)
  
• Senate passes $10 B jobless benefit measure - Bunning filibuster ends (www.cnn.com)
  
• Statement from NIDDK Director Griffin P. Rodgers for World Kidney ... (www.nih.gov)
  
• Beta2-Microglobulin Can Be a Disease Activity Marker in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Is It Time To Modify The Target Range For Serum Phosphorus Levels In Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• In a maneuver described as "shocking," Senators allow doctors to get a 21% cut in Medicare payments for Service (www.ama-assn.org)
  
• Medicare to Delay Paying Physician Claims the First 2 Weeks of March (news.google.com)
  
• World Kidney Day 2010 (jasn.asnjournals.org)
  
• Survival rates for dialysis patients rise (news.google.com)
  
• Cigarette Smoking, Kidney Function, and Mortality After Live Donor Kidney Transplant. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Genetic factors may help predict kidney disease risk (news.google.com)
  
• Diabetic kidney disease: Act now or pay later. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Physical Exercise in Patients with Severe Kidney Disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Former DaVita nurse requests new attorney (news.google.com)
  
• Effects of Interleukin-6 on Depression Risk in Dialysis Patients. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Early vs late start of dialysis: it's all about timing. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• FDA Announces New Safety Plan for Agents Used to Treat Chemotherapy-Related Anemia (www.pharmalive.com)
  
• Dialysis patients improve energy, treatment through cycling (news.google.com)
  
• Qui Tam alleges improper billing practice violations against dialysis company (www.lexology.com)
  
• A Comparison of SF-36 and SF-12 Composite Scores and Subsequent Hospitalization and Mortality Risks in Long-Term Dialysis Patients (cjasn.asnjournals.org)
  
• NEJM: Stents better than balloon angioplasty in dialysis patients with AV graft stenosis. (content.nejm.org)
  
• Angioaccess for Dialysis 2010 (nephron.org)
  
• Govt urged to rethink dialysis funding snub (news.google.com)
  
• Reassessment of Albumin as a Nutritional Marker in Kidney Disease (jasn.asnjournals.org)
  
• High Fructose Corn Syrup and Metabolic Syndrome (www.medscape.com)
  
• Congratulations to Tom Parker, AAKP Medal of Excellence Winner for 2010 (www.aakp.org)
  
• Amelioration of metabolic acidosis in patients with low GFR reduced kidney endothelin production and kidney injury, and better preserved GFR. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Effects of Cinacalcet and Concurrent Low-Dose Vitamin D on FGF23 Levels in ESRD (cjasn.asnjournals.org)
  
• Predicting Six-Month Mortality for Patients Who Are on Maintenance Hemodialysis (cjasn.asnjournals.org)
  
• Increased Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease in Elderly with Metabolic Syndrome and High Levels of C-Reactive Protein: Kahrizak Elderly Study. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Blood lead level and kidney function in US adolescents: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Regeneration and the kidney. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Vascular calcification score on plain radiographs of the feet as a predictor of peripheral arterial disease in patients with chronic kidney disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Quality of life predicts risks of end-stage renal disease and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Sugar-sweetened soda consumption, hyperuricemia, and kidney disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Senate Passes Health Care Reform Bill (www.cnn.com)
  
• Chronic kidney disease: Oral bicarbonate: renoprotective in CKD? (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Horseshoe Kidney in an 80 Year Old with Chronic Kidney Disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Kidney transplant success: Dr. Joseph Murray pioneered 55 years ago (news.google.com)
  
• Blood pressure in chronic kidney disease stage 5D-report from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes controversies conference. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• FGF23-parathyroid interaction: implications in chronic kidney disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Steve Fadem's Letter to CMS Regarding ESRD Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule (nephron.com)
  
• Patients and Doctors Search the Web (www.renalandurologynews.com)
  
• Inflammation modifies the association of osteoprotegerin with mortality in chronic kidney disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Predicting Six-Month Mortality for Patients Who Are on Maintenance Hemodialysis. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Role of oxidants/inflammation in declining renal function in chronic kidney disease and normal aging. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Clinical relevance of FGF-23 in chronic kidney disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Sevelamer and the bone-vascular axis in chronic kidney disease: bone turnover, inflammation, and calcification regulation. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Changes in Hemoglobin Level Distribution in US Dialysis Patients From June 2006 to November 2008. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• U.S. House votes to boost Medicare pay to doctors (www.reutershealth.com)
  
• Nearly Half of Dialysis Clinics Do Not Specify Hemoglobin Range (news.google.com)
  
• Combined role of reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate and microalbuminuria on the prevalence of peripheral arterial disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Factors Associated With Death or Hospitalization Due to Pandemic 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Infection in California. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Nephronline: Merging reimbursement for home training into the proposed bundle is a serious mistake (nephronline.com)
  
• Large Study of Anemia Treatment in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Not on Dialysis Published in the New England Journal of Medicine Failed to Meet Primary Efficacy Endpoints (biz.yahoo.com)
  
• Medicare Rationing for Kidney Dialysis (news.google.com)
  
• Intensive Dialysis Doesn't Save Lives of the Sickest (news.google.com)
  
• Coronary Calcification in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Coronary Artery Disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2010 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF KIDNEY PATIENTS MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE AWARD (nephron.org)
  
• Patients and Dialysis Health Workers Urged to take the Flu Vaccine (nephron.org)
  
• Kidney Beginnings Live in Houston October 3 (nephron.com)
  
• 4 Houston Doctors Honored for Wellness Activities (houstonhealthbook.com)
  
• Weight Loss is Good for the Kidneys (www.eurekalert.org)
  
• Grady Hospital Dialysis Unit - Fly Patients to Their Home Country (www.ajc.com)
  
• 10 Years Sarcoma Free - Amschwand Sarcoma Cancer Foundation Honors Nephron.com Founder (www.sarcomacancer.org)
  
• CKD classification based on estimated GFR over three years and subsequent cardiac and mortality outcomes: a cohort study. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• AAKP Seeking Nominations for 1010 Medal of Excellence Award (nephron.com)
  
• Chronic on Acute Renal Failure: Long-term Implications of Severe Acute Kidney Injury. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• FULL TEXT: Proposed Rule - Case Mix Adjusted Bundled Prospective Payment for ESRD - COMMENT BY NOV 16 (www.federalregister.gov)
  
• Kidney doctors question dialysis guidelines (news.google.com)
  
• US Cost-Saving Policy Forces New Kidney Transplant (news.google.com)
  
• GOING THE EXTRA MILE PROVED SUCCESSFUL FOR THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF KIDNEY PATIENTS AND ITS 36TH ANNUAL CONVENTION (nephron.com)
  
• Randomized trial of cyclosporine and tacrolimus therapy with steroid withdrawal in living-donor renal transplantation: 5-year follow-up. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Protein intake and chronic kidney disease: literature review, 2003 to 2008. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF KIDNEY PATIENTS WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS TO ITS NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS ()
  
• AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF KIDNEY PATIENTS HOST KIDNEY DISEASE EDUCATION PROGRAM IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (nephron.com)
  
• Overcorrection of hyponatremia is a medical emergency. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Would you sell a kidney in a regulated kidney market? Results of an exploratory study. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• OIG audits of dialysis centers comparing ESAs billed for with ESAs ordered. (www.healthleadersmedia.com)
  
• Sharing the load? For profit Las Vegas dialysis centers turfing illegal immigrant patients to university hospital. (www.lvrj.com)
  
• KLOTHO Gene Polymorphisms G-395A and C1818T Are Associated with Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Uric Acid in Japanese Hemodialysis Patients. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Glomerulonephritis: The Bad Guy Turns Good? (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Autologous arteriovenous fistula creation by nephrologists. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Antioxidant enzymes show adaptation to oxidative stress in athletes and increased stress in hemodialysis patients. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Impact of chronic kidney disease on early (30-day) and late (1-year) outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndromes treated with alternative antithrombotic treatment strategies: an ACUITY (Acute Catheterization and Urgent Intervention Triage strategY) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Vascular mapping: does it help to maximize fistulae placement? (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Cost-effectiveness of ACE inhibitor therapy to prevent dialysis in nondiabetic nephropathy: influence of the ACE insertion/deletion polymorphism. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Advanced Directives Initiative Should not Imperil Health Reform (www.medpagetoday.com)
  
• Six-month outcome in acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy in the ICU: a multicentre prospective study. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Incidence and progression of coronary calcification in chronic kidney disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)