RENAL GRAFT LOSS is less likely among transplant recipients who are employed full time when they get their kidneys and at one year postoperatively, according to researchers.

Renal transplant recipients have similar death-censored graft survival regardless of age, according to researchers in Norway.

UNIVERSAL ACCESS to health care might help to overcome racial and ethnic barriers to treatment for kidney disease, according to two studies.

Bacterial endocarditis is more likely to develop among patients on a waiting list for a kidney transplant than among kidney transplant recipients, data show.

THE SURVIVAL OF expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys has improved markedly since 1996, according to a recent study published in Clinical Transplantation (2008; published online ahead of print).

TRANSPLANTATION of kidneys from older donors is followed by increased stiffening of the recipient's aorta, which may help to explain the higher rates of CVD and death in patients receiving kidneys from expanded criteria donors, according to French researchers.

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV) retinitis is rare in organ transplant recipients, but it is progressive and is associated with high morbidity, according to researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Research developments that have implications for nephrology and urology certainly are not limited to the meetings and journals targeting these specialties. That is why our news coverage extends to meetings that nephrologists and urologists usually do not attend and journals they usually do not read.

SAN ANTONIO—Kidney and other solid organ recipients are largely unaware of their elevated risk for skin cancer, according to data presented here at the American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting.

ADULT RENAL transplant recipients are at elevated risk for developing post-transplant herpes zoster, according to researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.