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Athletes Team Up With The Rogosin Institute to Prevent Kidney Disease - Sacramento Bee |
Sacramento Bee
Kidney disease affects an estimated 11.5 percent of Americans, with more than 527000 people having such little kidney function that they require dialysis three times a week to stay alive.* Humphries and Brewer appear in public service announcements
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Macon wins support for dialysis center in state appeal - Waynesville Smoky Mountain News |
Waynesville Smoky Mountain News
Getting a kidney dialysis center in Franklin grew more likely last week after a state committee agreed Macon County had demonstrated a tangible need for such a facility. With a county population older than that of many surrounding communities,
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New York nephrologist gets tangled up with an insider trading case based on nephrotic syndrome drug. |
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NY Times: Doctor 1 talked to the money manager in June 2010 about an unpublished study of an obscure drug, according to the complaint filed by the state’s securities regulator. The hedge fund bought more than $800,000 in stock in Questcor, the company whose sole product was that drug, and saw its value soar.
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Exposure to vehicle exhaust fumes from traffic can trigger heart attacks with a 6-hour window. |
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BBC: Breathing in heavy traffic fumes can trigger a heart attack, say UK experts. Heart attack risk is raised for about six hours post-exposure and goes down again after that, researchers found.
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cMyBP-C protein may be new diagnostic marker for acute heart attack. |
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EurekAlert: In the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, researchers report that a large protein known as cardiac myosin binding protein-C (cMyBP-C) is released to the blood following a heart attack. "This potentially could become the basis for a new test, used in conjunction with other blood tests, to help diagnose heart attacks," said senior author Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD. "This is the beginning. A lot of additional studies will be necessary to establish cMyBP-C as a true biomarker for heart attacks."
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