Archive for September 2021
Talk to your family this Organ Donation Week
Talk to your family this Organ Donation Week 23 September 2021 Our health equalities programme manager, Neerja Jain, explains why Kidney Research UK is encouraging families from all communities to talk about organ donation. This Organ Donation Week, we’re encouraging families to talk about organ donation. Whilst great strides have been made in England, Scotland…
Read MoreFamily bonds made even closer through transplant
Family bonds made even closer through transplant 23 September 2021 A teenager who has lived with a chronic kidney condition for 16 years has been given a second chance of life, thanks to his dad. Mark Blakemore, from Stokesley in North Yorkshire, was diagnosed with kidney disease as a toddler following an infection of Ecoli-0157. A…
Read MoreNew vice chair Ben humbled by appointment
New vice chair Ben humbled by appointment 23 September 2021 Growing up with kidney disease, our newly appointed vice chair of trustees is in a good position to know how it feels to live with compromised health. Ben Digby, 36, was diagnosed with minimal change nephrotic syndrome at 20 months old, an auto immune condition which attacks the kidneys. After a childhood spent in and out of hospital, Ben was discharged with a…
Read MoreKidney disease diagnosis blow to mums of five donation hopes
Kidney disease diagnosis blow to mums of five donation hopes 22 September 2021 A mum of five from Cheadle in Cheshire is holding out hope for a kidney transplant after her potential donor – another mum of five – couldn’t donate her kidney when it was discovered she also had kidney disease. “I was heartbroken and…
Read MoreFinding hope for patients with high antibodies in need of a kidney transplant
Finding hope for patients with high antibodies in need of a kidney transplant 20 September 2021 To mark Organ Donation Week, we have caught up with one of our researchers, Dr Siân Griffin, a consultant nephrologist in Cardiff, to find out how she is striving to improve the transplant options for patients with very high antibody levels. Certain antibodies can complicate kidney transplantation Antigens are molecules…
Read MoreThe inside track on the work to protect kidney patients from Covid
The inside track on the work to protect kidney patients from Covid Miranda Scanlon writes 10 September 2021 I’ve been the lead of the Kidney Research UK Lay Advisory Group since April this year, but I’ve been a kidney transplant patient for much longer – 15 years in fact! Like so many other transplant patients I was shielding for much of the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Read MoreTool to help GPs predict which kidney patients need hospital care added to NICE chronic kidney disease guideline
Tool to help GPs predict which kidney patients need hospital care added to NICE chronic kidney disease guideline 09 September 2021 We are delighted to share that a study we funded that discovered a way to help GPs predict which patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are more likely to need dialysis or a kidney transplant in the future…
Read MoreIron treatment decreases risk of heart failure in patients on haemodialysis
Iron treatment decreases risk of heart failure in patients on haemodialysis 08 September 2021 New analysis from a pioneering clinical trial that we coordinated to tackle anaemia in patients on dialysis show that high doses of intravenous iron can also improve outcomes for patients who have recently started haemodialysis and develop heart failure. The PIVOTAL…
Read MoreJCVI recommends kidney transplant patients receive third Covid-19 vaccine dose
JCVI recommends kidney transplant patients receive third Covid-19 vaccine dose 03 September 2021 The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has issued new advice that people with severely weakened immune systems should have a third Covid-19 vaccine dose. Research studies, including one we have supported, have shown that people who are severely immunocompromised are…
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