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What You Need To Know About Prednisone

Prednisone can help prevent organ rejection after a kidney transplant because of its ability to suppress the immune system. But the medication also ha...

Corticosteroids,

Treatments and therapies

Watch out for Your Kidneys When You Use Medicines for Pain

What do you do if you have a headache, fever, or muscle pain? Chances are you go to the local drug store to pick up an overthecounter (nonprescripti...

Pain medicines,

Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing,

Treatments and therapies

Inexpensive Drug Improves Kidney Function in Diabetics

Pentoxifylline, a drug used to treat patients with circulation problems, may also benefit those with kidney disease caused by diabetes and other condi...

Diabetic kidney disease,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Diseases and conditions,

Treatments and therapies

Pain Killers and Your Kidneys - Top 5 Tips - E-Kidney | Oct 2012

Open up your medicine cabinet at home and you're likely to find at least one type of pain medication. Often people don't realize that these same medic...

Pain medicines,

Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing,

Treatments and therapies

10 Things Every Dialysis Patient Should Know - E-Kidney | May 2012

When you develop end stage kidney failure, your kidneys aren't able to function on their own anymore. This usually occurs when you lose about 85-90% o...

Foods to avoid,

Food and cooking,

Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing,

Treatments and therapies

Dialysis: Filtering Myths from Facts

Kidney failure can strike anyone at any age -men, women and children. For more than 380,000 Americans with kidney failure, dialysis treatment performs...

Dialysis access,

Dialysis patients' bill of rights and responsibilities,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Treatments and therapies

Dialysis Doesn't Tie Down Long Island Grandmother

For as far back as she can remember, Dolores Bisagni has suffered from high blood pressure. "I think I've had it forever," she says. Somehow, the cond...

High blood pressure,

Cardiovascular disease,

Diseases and conditions,

Treatments and therapies

Coping with Symptoms While on Dialysis

This information will help you learn more about kidney health.

Coping and self-care,

Mental health and wellness,

Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing,

Treatments and therapies