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Diabetics are at risk of diseases of the eye, kidney, nervous system and cardiovascular system.
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It can kill dandelions, but it's nasty stuff, capable of causing nervous system, kidney and liver damage in humans.
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They can cause cancer, kidney problems, nervous-system diseases, but it all depends on how much is in the ash, and that depends to start with, with the coal itself.
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Other reported problems include skin ailments, kidney damage, hypertension, central-nervous-system disorders, insomnia and nausea.
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Designed to treat kidney cancer, TroVax works by encouraging the immune system to attack a protein found in solid cancers.
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Roy Thomas, of Kidney Wales, which is campaigning for an opt-out system, said better communication was needed with the public.
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Triggered by a person's abnormal immune system or an infection, nephritis occurs when the kidney's filters become inflamed, scarred and destroyed.
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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.
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In the first study at Stanford University, a man who received his brother's kidney has gone for two years without drugs after his doctors tweaked his immune system with irradiation and antibody treatments.
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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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Alison John, an ambassador for Kidney Wales Foundation, who has had three transplants with four organs, said she believed having a presumed consent system is the "only way forward".
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