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Kidney failure and hypertension - Q My 75-year-old friend has been diagnosed with kidney failure. Dialysis shows that her kidneys are working 15 per cent below normal efficiency. We ar...

Treatment is toxic to the liver treatment is toxic to the liver - Berlex, which makes Betaseron (interferon beta-1b), has issued a warning regarding the drug’s adverse effects on the liver. Used to slow the progressi...

Polycystic kidney disease - A reader’s friend is suffering from polycystic kidney disease and has been told that if things continue to deteriorate she will need dialysis and mayb...

Cyclosporine: kidney damage - Patients taking cyclosporine, the wonder drug now being used for everything from transplants to psoriasis, are at risk of developing kidney damage, pa...

Hiv: strain resistant to azt - The use of zidovudine (AZT) to combat AIDS and HIV may be causing mutations of the HIV virus which are resistant to the drug. ...

Mercury and kidney function - The kidney, the repository of waste in the body, is a target organ for mercury. To test the effect of mercury on kidney function, 12 amalgam fillings...

Donor organs may transplant disease - A rethink on organ transplants is needed after a 29 year old patient developed cancer after receiving a liver from a woman who had died from a brain t...