HEALTH NOTES: People with kidney disease are 70 per cent more likely to develop dementia, study finds By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:12 BST, 8 May 2021 | Updated: 22:12 BST, 8 May 2021 People with kidney disease are 70 per cent more likely to develop dementia, a major study has found. Swedish researchers … Read more
Bernie Madoff’s cause of death was kidney disease and hypertension, according to his death certificate. The 82-year-old died on April 14 inside Butner prison in North Carolina. He had been sentenced to 150 years in July 2009, and served his entire sentence at the prison, with fellow inmates including Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard and mob … Read more
Bernie Madoff’s cause of death was kidney disease and hypertension, according to his death certificate. The 82-year-old died on April 14 inside Butner prison in North Carolina. He had been sentenced to 150 years in July 2009, and served his entire sentence at the prison, with fellow inmates including Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard and mob … Read more
Little 18-month-old toddler is rushed to hospital suffering from kidney failure after eating seagull droppings while playing in his garden Jaydon Pritchard, from Anglesey, rushed to hospital by ambulance after falling ill Medics put him on a dialysis machine and he received three blood transfusions His mystery illness was eventually identified by a specialist team … Read more
Little 18-month-old toddler is rushed to hospital suffering from kidney failure after eating seagull droppings while playing in his garden Jaydon Pritchard, from Anglesey, rushed to hospital by ambulance after falling ill Medics put him on a dialysis machine and he received three blood transfusions His mystery illness was eventually identified by a specialist team … Read more
A woman who was going through the menopause when she donated one of her kidneys to her younger brother, has revealed he began to experience some of her symptoms for a few weeks after the transplant. Denise Waldron from Salthill, Ireland, explained that she agreed to donate a kidney to her brother Raymond O Brien, … Read more
A woman who was going through the menopause when she donated one of her kidneys to her younger brother, has revealed he began to experience some of her symptoms for a few weeks after the transplant. Denise Waldron from Salthill, Ireland, explained that she agreed to donate a kidney to her brother Raymond O Brien, … Read more
Selena Gomez was feeling grateful on Thursday when she saluted her good friend Francia Raisa on Twitter for donating a kidney to her. The 28-year-old singer was movie to serenade her friend after Francia shared a hospital-room photo from when she donated a kidney to Selena in 2017. The 32-year-old Grown-ish actress took the opportunity … Read more
Snapchat has launched a body-tracking augmented reality (AR) lens that marks out where your organs are. Users of the popular video-sharing app just have to scan a Snapcode to activate the AR lens, which then uses your smartphone’s camera to identify a body. It then locates key organs within the body, such as the heart, … Read more
Patients suffering from advanced kidney cancer could see their life expectancy double thanks to a two-in-one drug treatment. Renal cell carcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer, can quickly spread through the body and if diagnosed at a late stage it is usually inoperable. In these cases drug treatments are typically the only option … Read more