Renal Radio is pleased to announce that for 2010 it has some interesting and informative interviews planned for broadcasting. If you have a story to tell or would like to suggest a specific subject of interest, please contact us at info@renalradio.com
Nicholas Owen whom many of you will recognise from his earlier days as a television broadcaster with the ITN (International Television News) and more recently with BBC News 24 (British Broadcasting Corporation) kindly writes a little bit about his life and his career, the fantastic changes in broadcasting he has experienced and his belief in the development of the new world of communication.
I have spent all my working life doing a job I love. I became a journalist at 17 and spent 17 years in the newspaper business before moving into television a quarter of a century ago. In 2002, a routine scan, which I'd been recommended to have, revealed a tumour on my left kidney. The kidney was removed. So far, so good...unlike many kidney cancer sufferers, I have been extremely lucky to have...
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Dialysis , the ability to artificially replace the functions of the kidney, is one of the remarkable advances of science, engineering and medicine. Thomas Graham, a Scottish chemist, first coined the term dialysis' in 1861, but it was nearly 100 years before his ideas were applied to man. In war torn Holland in 1944 the first patients received dialysis using a makeshift machine built from sausage casing, wooden drums and washing machine parts. Those early patients had acute kidney failure, often caused by crush or other combat injuries, a condition from which the kidneys can recover if the person can be kept alive during the critical period. Initially unsuitable for people with chronic irreversible renal failure, improvements and breakthroughs in the 1950s and early 1960s changed that...
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Date: Sunday 17 July 2011 Time: From 13:00 - 17:00 Come and join us for a lovely day out on the so... Read More
A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad 2, Chinese media report. Th... Read More
KAREN PHAIR has two dads to thank this Father's Day - and they have both saved her life. She was ju... Read More
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Spice Baked Salmon with Spelt, Cucumber and Lemon Salad
Preparation time: 25 mins. Cooking time: 12 mins. Serves 4.
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