Created in 2005, DaVita Rx is the first and largest full-service pharmacy catering exclusively to kidney patients.
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The next study, called SHARP, is in kidney patients and also compares the Vytorin combo pill to a placebo.
The Advertising Standards Authority concluded that the advert was likely to cause distress to kidney patients and could dissuade potential donors.
Dr Jibani's citation says he has raised money for the Welsh Kidney Patients Association by leading the annual ramble through Snowdonia.
At the same meeting Bayer and Onyx said their drug caused at least some tumor shrinkage in 42% of 89 kidney patients tested.
The technology exists for lower-cost home dialysis for kidney patients, but the companies selling dialysis machines and services are incented under reimbursement schedules to keep patients at inpatient renal centers.
Mr Phillips told the BBC Wales current affairs programme Week In Week Out that there could be long term financial benefits to the opt-out system, such as savings on dialysis treatment for kidney patients.
Peto got permission to unblind data from two ongoing studies involving 20, 000 patients: SHARP, testing Vytorin vs. placebo and Zocor in kidney patients, and IMPROVE-IT, which compares Vytorin and Zocor in patients at risk for heart attacks.
These work in dialysis and help cancer patients, but today Amgen is facing an Food and Drug Administration advisory panel because a large clinical trial showed that instead of improving the prognosis of pre-dialysis kidney patients, Aranesp increased stroke.
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The hospital said cancer patients and kidney dialysis patients were exempt from parking charges.
In a study from India, kidney transplant patients had crushed donor kidney tissue injected into their thymus - the body's "immune engine room" where cells can be "educated".
Within 120 days of starting treatment there were 4691 hospitalizations for acute kidney injury in patients without pre-existing kidney disease and 1896 hospitalizations in patients with pre-existing disease.
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There have been no clinical trials to assess the effect of higher doses, although two other studies done on less-sick patients might suggest the higher doses are problematic--one in 1998 for patients with cardiac disease and one last year for chronic kidney disease patients.
Tuesday, claiming it gave kickbacks to pharmacies to switch kidney transplant patients from competitors' drugs to its own.
The company looks to have a sure-fire new drug for kidney cancer patients who have failed other options.
Amgen shares are up 2.4% on a decision by Medicare not to make a decision regarding how doctors should use its anemia drug Aranesp in kidney dialysis patients.
In June oncologist Robert Motzer of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center reported that SU11248 dramatically shrank tumors in 33% of 63 kidney cancer patients tested (including Judy Norris) and halted tumor growth in another 37%.
One of the studies it helped fund has led to a promising antibody-based treatment called anti-PD-1, which activates the immune system against cancer and helps shrink or eliminate tumors in melanoma, lung, and kidney cancer patients.
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Augustine's Hospital busted a global ring: Slum-dwellers from Brazil and Moldova were selling their organs to an Israeli-led broker network, which then used the Internet to pull together over 100 willing kidney transplant patients from Israel, Europe and the U.S. Donors and recipients, posing as relatives, were flown to South Africa and operated on by elite doctors in Durban.
Patients without pre-existing disease on high potency statins were 34% more likely to be hospitalized with acute kidney injury than patients on other statin regimens.
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It was approved for treating kidney-transplant patients in 1999.
So Geoff Koffman, Stephen Young and their team at Guy's Hospital and Guy's Nuffield House in London have been experimenting with the use of ultrasound to examine the wounds of kidney-transplant patients.
Since the disease almost always kills, usually by causing kidney failure, the patients had little hope.
Yet it offers a real-world look at how more than 7, 000 Medicare patients with kidney tumors fared.
Epogen's main use is to treat anemia in patients with kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease.
Tests of one Sirtris drug had to be halted after it was linked to kidney damage in cancer patients.
Another, called SHARP, compares Vytorin, Zocor and placebo in patients with kidney disease.
Bundled payments cover procedures such as dialysis treatment for patients with kidney disease.
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That leaves doctors who want more proof of the drug's efficacy to wait for a study in patients with kidney disease.
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