WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Hydrating kidney disease patients with sodium bicarbonate during coronary angiography is no more effective in reducing the risk of serious kidney disease than hydration with sodium chloride, researchers say.

Neuropathy is a serious kidney disorder and a known complication of exposure to the iodine in the contrast agent used during angiography. The risk of neuropathy related to contrast agents ranges from 2 percent in low-risk people to 50 percent in those who are at high-risk.

FRIDAY, Aug. 15 (HealthDay News) -- The drug rituximab may significantly reduce kidney damage in people with a common form of kidney disease called membranous nephropathy, believed to be caused by autoimmune reactions against the kidney.

The disease, characterized by large amounts of protein in the urine, leads to impaired kidney function that may eventually require dialysis or a transplant.

By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- While dialysis is a lifesaving treatment for many people with kidney disease, it can be very inconvenient. And the process just doesn't clean the blood as effectively as well-functioning kidneys do.

But, nocturnal dialysis -- a newer option -- is starting to change all that.

By Serena Gordon
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- Transplanted islet cells help people with type 1 diabetes live insulin-free for at least a year or two, and appear to provide longer-term improved metabolic control even after people have to begin using insulin again, researchers report.

FRIDAY, April 18 (HealthDay News) -- Differences in muscle mass related to younger age or body composition may not explain why black patients with advanced kidney disease have higher levels of creatinine than white patients, says a U.S. study that challenges a widely held belief.

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I had a friend who is a teacher in a Phoenix area elementary school ask me a question that I could not answer regarding medical care for some one in the US illegally. My friend has a student who is 8 years old. Her student and her parents are here in the US illegally. My friend got very emotional as she described having to watch her student suffer from a kidney disease and her parents were too afraid to seek any medical help because they were too afraid to be turned in. I almost broke down in tears hearing this terrible story.