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USRDS 2010 Annual Report now available as an AJKD free online supplement.

AJKD: The USRDS report as 35 articles are available as an online only supplement.

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Avastatin equivalent to Lucentis for treating wet macular degeneration, but much cheaper.

NEJM: An expensive eye injection that’s approved to treat macular degeneration — the most common cause of age-related blindness — works no better than a much cheaper drug at preventing vision loss. That’s the finding of a long-awaited study published online yesterday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

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FDA panel recommends approval of telaprevir for hepatitis C.

FDA: Although tests revealed side effects such as anemia and rashes, the panel praised the drug’s apparent 80 percent cure rate for the virus, up from 40 percent for current treatments.

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Thyroid supplements in the elderly increase bone fracture risk.

BBC: Those who were currently taking thyroxine, or who had recently stopped were at a significantly higher risk of experiencing fractures. Writing in the BMJ, the researchers led by Dr Lorraine Lipscombe, said it suggested medication levels should be more closely monitored "in this vulnerable population".

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Multiple staff from Loyola Medical Center have become altruistic live kidney donors.

Oak Park News: They're not related by blood, but the seven women who work at Loyola Hospital in Maywood have a special bond: They have each donated one of their kidneys to a stranger or acquaintance as part of Loyola's Living Donor Kidney Transplant program's "Pay it Forward" program. Loyola calls them the "Seven Sisters."

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