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5 Beauty Products with Ingredients That May Harm Your Kidneys

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Beauty products can be used in a variety of ways. Some people are empowered by them, while others may feel like these products hide their true selves. Regardless of how you use or view cosmetics, it’s important to be mindful of the different ingredients they use. It’s up to us to learn about potential risks associated with the products and make informed choices about what we apply to our bodies. 
Read the full story from National Kidney Foundation.

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For recipient of UCLA Health’s 10,000th kidney transplant, new organ provides new lease on life

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The 42-year-old lost more than 200 pounds and spent a decade on dialysis before receiving a new kidney last year.

By UCLA Health

Ray Jones was 31 when he was blindsided by the news that he had end-stage kidney disease. It wasn’t that he hadn’t been experiencing symptoms: He often felt sluggish and had a hard time catching his breath, and he’d also noticed swelling in his legs due to edema. At the time, though, given that he weighed about 450 pounds, he simply chalked up the symptoms as being weight-related. Read the full story from UCLA Health.

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Another step toward using animal organs: Pig kidney sustains brain-dead man for a month

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By Karen Weintraub

Doctors in New York have managed to keep a brain-dead man in a state of sort of suspended animation for more than a month after removing his kidneys and replacing them with one from a pig.

A ventilator has kept 57-year-old Maurice Miller’s heart beating and other organs functioning while the pig kidney produces urine and other normal byproducts. Read the full story in USA Today.

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U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Partners with Top Kidney Advocates

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AAKP and Veterans Health Administration Align  to Improve Veteran Lives

By American Association of Kidney Patients

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the largest and oldest independent kidney patient organization in the nation, announced their new partnership with the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The formal collaboration aims to improve health outcomes and enhance the overall quality of life for Veterans with kidney diseases and is facilitated under the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) National Center for Healthcare Advancement and Partnerships (HAP).  AAKP has extensive Veteran and Veteran family representation among its Board of Directors, National Patient Ambassadors, and grassroots membership.

AAKP is a strong advocate for greater patient care choice, patient-centered medicine, and accelerated innovations in kidney disease prevention, diagnostics, and treatments – including expanded access to kidney transplantation and new artificial implantable and wearable organs. Read the complete press release from AAKP.

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How machine learning could aid compatibility in kidney transplantation

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Through the PURM internship program, undergraduate students are further researching an algorithm developed to group kidney donor-recipient pairs into low-risk and high-risk groups for graft survival.

By Erica Moser

The United States saw a record 25,487 kidney transplants in 2021, according to the latest annual data report from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Five years after transplantation, successful organ function—called graft survival—of kidneys from deceased donors was 81% among patients ages 18 to 34 and 68% among people older than 65.
Read the full article in Penn Today.

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How machine learning could aid compatibility in kidney transplantation

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By Erica Moser

The United States saw a record 25,487 kidney transplants in 2021, according to the latest annual data report from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Five years after transplantation, successful organ function—called graft survival—of kidneys from deceased donors was 81% among patients ages 18 to 34 and 68% among people older than 65.

Malek Kamoun of the Perelman School of Medicine and Ryan Urbanowicz of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are developing machine learning strategies to improve kidney matching and decrease the risk of graft failure—with help from Penn students. Read the full article in Medical Xpress.

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Kidney doctors push to protect patients by including dialysis machines in emergency stockpile

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By Carrie Arnold

Ariel Brigham was drowning. Hurricane Harvey had dumped over 50 inches of rain across Houston and coastal Texas, leaving the then-26-year-old Texan stranded in her flooded apartment.

But what was killing Brigham wasn’t water from the hurricane. It was the excess fluid and toxins building up in her own body. Read the full story in STAT.

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Make-A-Wish Participant and Kidney Transplant Recipient Experiences a Day as a Doctor

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By Kristin Samuelson

Twelve-year-old Melanie Rodriguez Romo has dreamed of becoming a doctor since she was just three. So much so that she requested it as her Make-A-Wish following a life-saving kidney transplant.

A team-effort between Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the kidney and transplant teams at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Lurie Children’s kidSTAR Medical Education Program, her wish was granted. Read the full story from Northwestern Medicine News Center.

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Success With HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplants

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— All donors did well after nephrectomies, and all recipients continue to have functioning kidneys

By Valerie DeBenedette

Three people living with HIV had promising outcomes after donating kidneys to three others with HIV, according to a prospective study within the HOPE in Action Multicenter Consortium.

Among the three living donors, grade 3 or higher nephrectomy-related adverse events occurred in two donors after donation, including a medically managed ileus and a laparoscopically repaired incisional hernia, reported Christine Durand, MD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues.
Read the complete article in MedPage Today.

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Yours Truly: A Heartwarming Romance Inspired by Best-Selling Author Abby Jimenez’s Kidney Disease Diagnosis

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New York Times bestselling author of Part of Your World and Food Network champion Abby Jimenez is back with another smash hit–Yours Truly. In this riveting romance, Dr. Briana Ortiz’s life is quickly changing. She gets a divorce, her brother is in kidney failure, and the promotion she wants might go to a new doctor, Dr. Jacob Maddox. Just when she’s decided to hate Dr. Maddox, he donates a kidney to her brother and changes the course of their relationship forever. Read the full Q&A from the National Kidney Foundation.

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