Dr Charlie Tonson, chairman of the Royal College of Physicians renal medicine committee, said chronic kidney disease was an important public health problem.
He suffers from a litany of health problems, including kidney disease that his lawyers said ahead of sentencing were likely to require dialysis treatment.
According to an investigation by the CDC and New York city and state health officials, a kidney transplant recipient contracted the virus from a donor in an unnamed New York City hospital in 2009.
Acute kidney injury (also known as kidney failure) is a major public health concern.
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The early onset of obesity may bring severe health problems, such as kidney failure, by the time today's children reach adulthood.
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Ketosis is a state in which the body burns its own fat for fuel and can "cause health problems, such as kidney failure, " according to the medical Web site WebMD.
Health risks after drinking methanol include kidney failure, blindness, seizures and death.
Diabetes can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, kidney failure and blindness, according to the CDC.
It is rumoured that Vera Duckworth will be involved in her own health scare at Christmas while donating a kidney to her errant son Terry's grandchild.
Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.
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The lawyers say in their motion that the lack of drinkable water has "already caused some prisoners kidney, urinary and stomach problems, " in addition to the health effects of the hunger strike.
She says she has had multiple health problems over the years, including lung disease and a kidney transplant, but was surprised when an A1C test diagnosed Type 2 diabetes.
This is not just a U.S. problem: The World Health Organization estimates that barely one in ten people worldwide who need kidney transplants actually get them.
Software marketer and kidney cancer survivor Dave deBronkart thought he was being smart when he downloaded his health records from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston into his account at Google Health, a new site that promises to help patients control their personal health records online.
The World Health Organization in Geneva estimates that 10% of the 61, 000 kidney transplants performed globally in 2004 were cases of transplant tourism.
One company that stands out above the rest is DaVita, a Fortune 500 kidney care and dialysis services organization that aspires to be a role model in the health care industry.
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Vincent Tan: The main causes I support include community causes (provide aid for the poor, children, elderly folks), health causes (provide support and financial aid for treatment of diseases like AIDS, kidney ailments, cancer, free acupuncture centre), education (providing scholarships for education, and free education for underprivileged children and youth), environmental preservation (protection and preservation of coral growth), support and promotion of local performing arts, and humanitarian assistance for disaster relief.
Health services must take the long term view and prevent the heart attacks, strokes, blindness and kidney damage that diabetes can cause.
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