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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 south coast. We will have stalls with books, bric-a-brac, cakes, clothes, a coconut shy, face-painting, gifts, jewellery, Phoenix cards, raffle, tombola, toys and of course a bar. Food will also be available including the rturn of the popular hog roast, caribbean and Indian specialities, ice creams, cream teas and musical and children's entertainmentment. There will be a small fee of £1 to use the lovely outdoor pool and donations will be requested on the entrance gate.
PLEASE DO COME AND SUPPORT US ON THE DAY - WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU.
N.B. Coaches have been arranged from Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals at £8 return per adult and £6 per pension or chil...
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A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad 2, Chinese media report.
The 17-year-old, identified only as Little Zheng, told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet.
The story only came to light after the teenager's mother became suspicious.
The case highlights China's black market in organ trafficking. A scarcity of organ donors has led to a flourishing trade.
Deep red scar
It all started when the high school student saw an online advert offering money to organ donors.
Illegal agents organised a trip to the hospital and paid him $3,392 (£2,077) after the operation.
With the cash the student bought an iPad 2, as well as a laptop.
When his mother noticed the computers and the deep red scar on his body, which was ca...
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KAREN PHAIR has two dads to thank this Father's Day - and they have both saved her life.
She was just 17 when her kidneys stopped working only weeks after an operation to have her tonsils out.
Determined to give his daughter the life she deserved, Karen's dad Joe stepped up and donated a kidney.
That amazing gift of life bought Karen precious time and the joy of the birth of her son Kyle, now three.
But she faced a second fierce fight for survival after her kidneys failed again and she had to have dialysis to rid her body of toxins up to three times a week simply to stay alive.
Desperate to help, her stepdad Paul Edwards, 43, gave a kidney.
Today Karen will celebrate her first Father's Day since that operation.
She said: "I wouldn't be here without both of my dads.
"After a lifetim...
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A Sussex, N.B., father received an extraordinary gift from his son just in time for Father's Day — a new kidney.
Arthur Cruickshank, 67, has diabetes and has been undergoing dialysis treatment for years. He lost one of his kidneys three years ago and had seen a rapid decline in his health.
His 39-year-old son Dana decided it was time to offer one of his own kidneys to his father.
"The dialysis was keeping him alive, but he didn't have any quality of life and he was dying. There's no doubt about it, he eventually would if he didn't get a kidney," Dana said.
His mother said she was taken aback by her son's decision.
"He was literally dying in front of us and finally [Dana] had enough of that," said Doris Cruickshank.
"Dana just said to me one day. 'Well, I guess Dad needs a kidne...
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A controlled diet high in fat and low in carbohydrate can repair kidney damage in diabetic mice, according to US scientists.
The study, published in journal PLoS ONE, showed a "ketogenic diet" could reverse damage caused to tubes in the kidneys by too much sugar in the blood.
In the UK around a third of the 2.8m people with either type 1 or 2 diabetes go on to develop kidney damage.
Diabetes UK said it was "questionable" whether humans could sustain the diet.
Damage reversed
The researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York used mice with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Once kidney damage had developed, half the mice were put onto the ketogenic diet for eight weeks.
The highly controlled diet, which is 87% fat, mimics the effect of starvation and should not be used ...
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Mr Blake has home dialysis five times a week and can speak to the hospital via his laptop if he has any problems
Patients in Gwynedd are using Skype to connect by computer to the local renal unit while having dialysis treatment.
Eleven patients are saving on round trips of up to two hours to see nursing staff for checks by communicating by video over the internet.
Other areas of the UK may follow suit after a British Renal Symposium showcase.
Specialist nurses say it is a low cost way to speed up problem-solving and increases patient confidence.
Haemodialysis specialist nurse Sarah Hirst-Williams said delegates at the symposium had been "blown away" by the simple idea of using Skype, usually used for socialising.
She said it was first thought of by a patient who was a two-hour drive ...
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Vytorin, a drug used for lowering cholesterol levels, has been found to reduce the risk of heart disease among kidney patients by up to 25 percent, according to the results obtained by Oxford University research scientists who carried out the research on a group of 9,270 kidney disease patients, with the work starting in 2003. The measured improvement was 17% but many patients were not on the drug for the entire test period, and the researchers estimate that the improvement would have been 25% if they had.Patients with chronic kidney disease are at high risk of suffering a heart attack. Lowering the LDL levels (the so-called bad cholesterol) reduces the risks for healthy people, but this latest study shows it works very well for chronic kidney disease patients too, reports Dr. Colin Baigen...
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AN INITIATIVE set up by Bradford healthcare professionals to support patients with kidney disease has won first prize at the 2011 British Journal of Renal Medicine Innovation Awards.The Chronic Kidney Disease electronic advice service provides GPs with specialist advice through the sharing of electronic patient records with Dr John Stoves, consultant in nephrology and general medicine at St Luke's Hospital. He said: "We have demonstrated that record sharing allows timely, safe and effective virtual review of patients with mild-to-moderate chronic kidney disease in the community.
In addition to giving electronic advice to GP colleagues, the Bradford renal team is now better able to manage its dialysis and kidney transplant patients." Dr John Connolly, clinical lead for technology at NHS Br...
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NASHVILLE (WSMV) - Facebook brings people together for social interaction, but recently the site brought two men together for a live-saving mission.
Tim Magsby was in desperate need of a kidney, but those closest to him were ruled out as donors.
After four years on dialysis, he almost lost hope, but decided to take a chance on Facebook, posting a video, pleading for a kidney.
Months went by with no response, until one night he got a call from an old high school classmate in California who he hadn't spoken to in 25 years.
"I've learned in life, that there's the good voices that tell you to do stuff and then there's the bad voices. That had to be a good voice," said Randy Riney, who went to Magsby's school in 1986.
Riney had seen the video on a mutual friend's page and wanted to donat...
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A woman who had four transplants has begun a 2,000 mile (3218km) motor bike ride to help other victims of kidney disease.
Maureen Hendon, 49, and partner Robert Reese, 52, from Malpas in Newport, are riding across seven transporter bridges in 10 days.
They started in Newport on Monday, and were also visiting UK bridges at Warrington and Middlesbrough.
They will ride to Germany, France and Spain, raising money for charity.
Ms Hendon was born with one kidney, but was not diagnosed with kidney failure until she was 32.
Doctors told her she had only five per cent kidney function and very high blood pressure.
"I just couldn't believe it. I was fit and healthy. I wasn't over weight, I didn't smoke. Everything happened very fast. I had gone from somebody who had just a few niggly things to ...
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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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