Chinese transplant doctors at Shanghai’s Renji Hospital recently published their first-of-its-kind research in an American academic journal, marking the first kidney pair transplant from preterm infants to adult recipients in a country facing allegations of human rights atrocities in its organ transplantation network. The state-funded Shanghai Jiao Tong University published a press release on Feb. 27, […]
LONDON— A senior Nigerian politician was on trial in London on Tuesday for allegedly exploiting a street trader by transporting him to the U.K. to donate a kidney in exchange for thousands of pounds. Ike Ekweremadu, who was deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and a lawyer, was on trial along with his wife, Beatrice […]
JAKARTA—Some medicinal syrups available in Indonesia contained ingredients linked to fatal acute kidney injury (AKI) in children, its health minister said on Thursday, as it investigates a spike in cases and 99 child deaths this year. Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin was also cited by media as saying some of those syrups were produced locally. […]
BANJUL—Gambia’s government on Friday said the number of child deaths from acute kidney injury, thought to be linked to Indian-made cough syrups, has risen to 70 from a previous toll of 69. President Adama Barrow gave the update at an emergency cabinet meeting which he convened on Thursday to discuss the crisis, according to a […]
JAKARTA—Indonesia will investigate cases of acute kidney injury which has caused the deaths of more than 20 children in its capital Jakarta this year, health authorities said on Wednesday. The probe comes as authorities in Gambia said nearly 70 children died from acute kidney injury after taking a locally-sold paracetamol syrup used to treat fever. […]
A North Carolina man is set to receive a kidney from the daughter he adopted 27 years ago. Billy Houze, a father of five, requires a kidney transplant after his kidneys began shutting down several years ago following gall bladder surgery. Doctors told him in 2016 that he would die within five years if he didn’t […]
WELLINGTON, Fla.—The Florida Board of Medicine says a West Palm Beach surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine for removing a woman’s healthy kidney that he thought was a tumor. The Palm Beach Post reports Ramon Vazquez was responsible for cutting Maureen Pacheco open in 2016 so two other surgeons could perform a back […]
It seems like simple, obvious advice: Eat your vegetables, get some exercise, and — of course — take your vitamins. Or not. Decades of research has failed to find any substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any significant good. In fact, recent studies skew in the opposite direction, having found that certain vitamins may […]
Doctors may soon be prescribing trips to Disney World, after researchers discovered that taking a ride on one of its most iconic roller coasters can help kidney stones pass through the urinary system out of the body. The study, which appears in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, was inspired by anecdotal reports about […]
