In one of the first studies to focus exclusively on the outcomes in men with high-risk prostate cancer, researchers have found that surgery results in improved survival rates. John Schieszer has the latest in Today’s Medical Minute.
A simple, inexpensive blood test may soon be able to help clinicians stop organ rejection before it impairs transplanted kidneys. This new assay may also be able to help some patients reduce doses of immuno-suppressive agents. John Schieszer has the story in today’s Medical Minute.
Adding a continuous blood sugar level sensor to an insulin pump may help Type-1 diabetics achieve better A-one-C levels compared to the common standard of care with multiple daily insulin injections. At least that is what a just-released Canadian’s study is suggesting. John Schieszer has the latest in today’s Medical Minute.
Transplanted kidneys preserved and transported in a new high-tech machine may lower the odds of delayed graft function by as much as 43-percent compared to kidneys stored in the traditional box of ice. John Schieszer has the latest on the story in today’s Medical Minute.
Syndicated medical journalist John Schieszer discusses a new study that adds to mounting evidence that infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes disease that extends beyond the liver.
Syndicated medical journalist John Schieszer reports that researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis have identified a pair of proteins excreted in the urine that could lead to earlier and more accurate diagnosis of kidney cancer.
In this installment of The Medical Minute, medical reporter John Schieszer how the program works and how it is changing the kidney transplant wait list. In kidney paired donation, one incompatible donor/recipient pair is matched with another such pair so that the donor in each pair gives a kidney to the recipient in the other pair
Syndicated medical journalist John Schieszer reports on new research showing that, among men who undergo PSA tests, those who are obese are significantly less likely to have a PSA level of 4 ng/mL or higher, a widely used criterion for undergoing a prostate biopsy.
John Schieszer reports that a Phase II study of 25 patients with newly diagnosed metastatic, clear cell, renal cell carcinoma is now suggesting that immunotherapy may be beneficial.
African Americans (compared with those of other races) and individuals aged 60 years and older (compared with those younger than 40 years) have a lower likelihood of recruiting potential living donors and of receiving living donor kidney transplants if they had potential donors.
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