Patients with kidney disease may also have heart problems or diabetes – both of which have been linked with more severe COVID-19 infections.
Walpiri Transient Camp, Katherine: Western medicine can’t be expected to work for disadvantaged Indigenous Australians unless housing and social disadvantage are also addressed.
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A safe home, a working fridge and access to transport are all needed before western medicine has a chance of working in the long term. But a new way of providing care can help.
Early detection of disease can be a double-edged sword.
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The threshold for diagnosing common conditions such as high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease and gestational diabetes have all lowered in recent years. But for whose benefit?
Impetigo happens when itching causes the skin to break and let in disease-causing bacteria.
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While school sores – or impetigo – is a treatable condition, if left untreated it can lead to much more serious illness such as kidney and heart disease.
In Africa, many patients with kidney failure either incur catastrophic out of pocket medical bills or die.
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The number of Australians with chronic kidney disease is set to rise, but there’s no cure for most people. Here’s what you need to know about this silent killer.
Ensuring that children eat healthily can prevent them from developing kidney disease.
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An increase in child obesity is spurring on hypertension and diabetes among children, which may lead to chronic kidney disease.
Biomedical science has made our lives immeasurably better, but it’s time to accept that too much medicine can be as harmful as too little.
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By forgetting that medicine postpones death rather than saving lives, we persuade ourselves it might somehow keep extending our life and come to view death as a failure of medicine.
Kidneys are a feature-packed, highly efficient filtration and waste elimination system.
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One in nine Australians over the age of 25 (that’s 1.7 million people) has chronic kidney disease. That’s more than the number living with chronic lung disease, stroke, heart failure, and all types of…
A newly-defined condition called ‘chronic kidney disease’ could turn many people unnecessarily into patients.
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Kidneys are probably not a subject most of us think about too much – but right now they’re at the centre of a global medical controversy. In a paper published in the British Medical Journal today, we explain…
Paediatric Nephrologist and Senior Specialist in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University