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Last updated Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:03:08 -0500 GMT.

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• Vitamin D and Parathyroid Hormone in General Populations: Understandings in 2009 and Applications to Chronic Kidney Disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Obama speaks to AMA on health care reform (blogs.wsj.com)
  
• One gene and kidney disease in blacks (www.kxan.com)
  
• Electronic nose to sniff out kidney disease in exhaled breath (www.nanowerk.com)
  
• Snoring Associated With Sleep Apnea May Impair Brain Function More Than Previously Thought (www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• kidneyspa Introduces A Revolutionary Approach To Dialysis ... (www.prweb.com)
  
• GAO: CMS Should Monitor Effect of Bundled Payment on Home Dialysis Utilization Rates (www.gao.gov)
  
• Joe White, Civic Leader, Dies after Lengthy Illness (nephron.com)
  
• 3-D Kidney Atlas Created For Researchers And Physicians (www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Natalie Cole Gets a New Kidney (www.renalbusiness.com)
  
• Tweets from OR follow kidney transplant step by step (www.modernmedicine.com)
  
• Heart disease patients who are overweight do better and live longer. (www.eurekalert.org)
  
• New York Reports Its First Swine Flu Death (www.nytimes.com)
  
• Kidney Now! Watch on 30Rock and Download the Song (www.nbc.com)
  
• N-Acetylcysteine Improves Arterial Vascular Reactivity in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Chronic undernutrition alters renal active Na(+) transport in young rats: potential hidden basis for pathophysiological alterations in adulthood? (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• DaVita Becomes the First FORTUNE 500 Healthcare Services Company to Join the EPA Green Power Partnership (www.prnewswire.com)
  
• Vitamin K deficiency in CKD patients: a modifiable risk factor for vascular calcification? (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• AAKP Responds to Wanda Sykes' Comments (www.aakp.org)
  
• Solders in Iraq reportedly received inadequate water rations (www.khou.com)
  
• What a Terrible Thing to Say (www.rightpundits.com)
  
• Pill Burden, Adherence, Hyperphosphatemia, and Quality of Life in Maintenance Dialysis Patients. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• NewYokTimes Mother's Poll (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
  
• New AAKP Head Calls on pcps, Specialists, and Patients to Team Up (www.renalandurologynews.com)
  
• Q and As about dialysis modalities (health.nytimes.com)
  
• Hemodialysis Facility-Based Quality-of-Care Indicators and Facility-Specific Patient Outcomes. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• KCER - California dialysis patient suspected of swine flu - being tested (www.renalbusiness.com)
  
• Interim Guidance for Clinicians and Public Health Professionals (www2a.cdc.gov)
  
• Swine flu toddler dies at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston - First Death (www.chron.com)
  
• Reducing early mortality in patients on dialysis: lessons from the RightStart program. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Pandemic Risk Grows as New Cases Pop Up (feedproxy.google.com)
  
• The First Completely Autologous Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts ... (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
  
• New Gene Regions Linked With Susceptibility To HIV-1 and #8211;associated Kidney Disease (www.sciencedaily.com)
  
• Virus with bird and swine gene segments hits Texas (www.chron.com)
  
• Dispatch: Update: Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Infections --- California and Texas, April 2009 (www.cdc.gov)
  
• AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF KIDNEY PATIENTS HONORS REPRESENTATIVES CAMP AND STARK FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO KIDNEY PATIENTS (nephron.com)
  
• Sustained appetite improvement in malnourished dialysis patients by daily ghrelin treatment. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Effect of treatment frequency on haemodialysis dose: comparison of EKR and stdKt/V. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• ARMC DIALYSIS PATIENTS TEST POSITIVE FOR HEPATITIS C (www.nbc40.net)
  
• NKF SCMO9: Effectiveness of lanthanum carbonate (Fosrenol) in ESRD patients (nephron.com)
  
• AST Leaders Fly to Capitol Hill to Garner and Secure Support for Transplantation Initiatives (www.prnewswire.com)
  
• Chronic catastrophic-like antiphospholipid syndrome: a "smoldering" variant? (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Kaiser Permanente to settle kidney transplant claims for $1 million (www.latimes.com)
  
• Role of vitamin d in chronic kidney disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Association of cystatin C with adverse outcomes. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• The pathogenesis of vascular calcification in the chronic kidney disease mineral bone disorder: the links between bone and the vasculature. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Outcomes Associated with Race in Males with Nondialysis-Dependent Chronic Kidney Disease. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Quest labs pays $302M as part of guilty plea in fraud (www.newsday.com)
  
• Osteopontin: a multifunctional protein at the crossroads of inflammation, atherosclerosis, and vascular calcification. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Hepatitis C Virus Transmission at an Outpatient Hemodialysis Unit ... (jama.ama-assn.org)
  
• Pregnancy outcomes after kidney donation. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Liberty Dialysis Pumps New Life into Hana (www.honoluluadvertiser.com)
  
• Homocysteine as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease in Patients Treated by Dialysis: A Meta-analysis. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Rosiglitazone Is Associated with Mortality in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• DaVita Dietitian Receives 2009 National Kidney Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Renal Health (www.prnewswire.com)
  
• AP: Lufkin Dialysis Nurse Charged with 5 Counts of Murder (www.google.com)
  
• Big Advances in Small Packages for Dialysis (www.myfoxhouston.com)
  
• AURORA Study: Statins Do Not Improve Outcome of End-Stage Renal Disease Dialysis ... (www.docguide.com)
  
• The effect of the duration of the dialysis in hemodialysis patients on dental and periodontal findings. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• Reduction in dialysis reimbursement rate (health.cch.com)