There’s something classic and comforting about chicken noodle soup, especially during the winter months. We invite you to check out this low-sodium, homestyle recipe that’s sure to warm your bones and fill your belly.
Special thanks to our partner, National Kidney Foundation, for sharing this transplant friendly recipe. Find out how to make it here.
In 2009, Sam Dey was working for General Motors and in India on business.
It was during that business trip that Sam started falling.
“I was collapsing and falling in these incredibly crowded streets of India,” says Sam. “I was falling everywhere, and people were always pouring water on my face to revive me.”
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Liver transplant recipients with daptomycin-resistant Enterococcus bacteremia were more than twice as likely to die within a year compared with those who had vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus bacteremia, a study found.
“In our institution, we noted a significant increase in Enterococcus isolates resistant to daptomycin, leaving few options for treatment,” Rachael A. Lee, MD, MSPH, associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told Healio.
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At any given time, an estimated 15% of the US adult population has chronic kidney disease (CKD). It manifests as reduced kidney function to below 60% of its normal range (estimated glomerular filtration rate < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2) or by spillage of protein into the urine. The many causes of CKD include diabetes, hypertension, glomerulonephritis, and cystic kidney diseases. CKD is an irreversible malady with no known cure, and it invariably worsens over time. CKD is associated with higher mortality risks as it advances. If the patient does not die of cardiovascular or infectious events, end-stage renal disease ensues and the patient requires maintenance dialysis therapy or kidney transplantation to survive.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Randy Hines was told in 2021 that, without a new heart, he would likely die within a year. Today, he feels like a new man.
Hines, 67, was an elementary school physical education teacher for Fort Wayne Community Schools, so health and fitness had always been important to him. But in his mid-50s he started noticing some changes. Read the full story.
Adherence promotion strategies, such as the Medication Adherence Promotion System, proved to be cost-effective and improved rejection rates among adolescent kidney transplant recipients, according to a published study.
“To date, there are several randomized controlled trials that show systems to improve medication adherence can improve adherence in transplant patients, but they have not demonstrated a decrease in rejection rates — which is the primary purpose to improve medication adherence in transplant patients,” Charles D. Varnell Jr., MD, MS, assistant medical director of kidney transplantation from the division of nephrology and hypertension at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, told Healio.
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A patient with disabilities can be denied life-saving organ transplants because of those disabilities, and parents often fear the worst. Families have won protections in many states — including 14 in the last year.
But more than three decades after the Americans with Disabilities Act — which prohibits discrimination based on a person’s disability — became federal law, advocates say inequities persist in health care. Read more.
At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us pivoted to providing a great deal of care over video visits — telehealth encounters over Zoom and other platforms — where patients could stay safely in their homes and still receive healthcare.
This served an incredible public health purpose, protecting patients from coming in for their routine care while still being able to give them ongoing healthcare through contact with their doctors. Read the full story.
Exercise, like daily walking, may improve overall health and impede progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD); however, no specific walking dose has been recommended for CKD patients. We aimed to investigate the association between daily walking steps and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adults with CKD. Read more.
Despite a significant decrease in immunosuppression, the occurrence of post-COVID-19 donor-specific antibodies among COVID-19-positive kidney transplant recipients was low, according to data published in Kidney International Reports.
“Greater severity of COVID-19 has been reported in kidney transplant recipients and is most likely due to comorbidities and immunosuppressive therapy,” Christophe Masset, MD, from the Clinic Institute of Transplantation Urology Nephrology (ITUN) at the University Hospital of Nantes in France, and colleagues wrote. Read the full story.