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Diet drinks 'could harm the kidneys' - Daily Mail 2nd November 2009
"Diet fizzy drinks may damage the kidneys, a study suggests.
Research on 3,000 women found that two or more artificially sweetened drinks a day doubled the risk of a faster-than-average decline in kidney function. "
High-tech gadgets that can turn your own front room into a hospital - Daily Mail 20th October 2009
"Advances in technology mean you no longer have to have all your medical treatments in hospital - some highly technical ones can be done at home. As well as minimising the disruption to patients' lives, this saves the NHS money. So could this DIY form of treatment work for you? Here, we review some of the medical treatments currently available at home."
Making life count after transplant - BBC Health News 5th October 2009
"Former world arm wrestler champion Rob Lenette has been given a second life.
"This time last year I was coming up to my fifth year of dialysis. Waiting for a kidney transplant was like treading water in the middle of the ocean," he says."
Woman has THREE kidney transplants - including organs from her mother and father - Daily Mail 28th September 2009
At the tender age of just 12 days old, Keeley Beytell-Heron became the youngest patient to receive kidney dialysis.
At 17 months, she became the youngest and smallest child in the world to have a kidney transplant.
Kidney patient’s gifts from Mum and Dad - The Times 28th September 2009
A woman who was the youngest person to have a kidney transplant, and who went on to have a second kidney donated by her mother, has now had a third, donated by her father.
Woman given third kidney transplant - Daily Telegraph 28th September 2009
A woman who was the youngest baby ever to have a kidney transplant has since had a second one from her mother and now amazingly a third one from her father.
Family anger at long wait for NHS to take blame for father's death - The Observer 20th September 2009
More than three years after Setal Kotwani's death, the NHS finally accepts coroner's verdict of neglect
Mum donates kidney to save son - Manchester Evening News 17th september 2009
A MOTHER donated a kidney to save her youngest son - months after his older brother died.
Doctors told Daniel Thornton, 22, that he needed a transplant after a kidney condition deteriorated.
Months later, his brother Mark, 37, fell ill and died from septicaemia after being diagnosed with a rare cancer.
Thirteen children in hospital after contracting E coli at Godstone Farm - The Guardian 15th September 2009
Health Protection Agency reveals that 37 people, including 13 children, are in hospital with the potentially lethal E coli bug
'Mummy, my tummy hurts': Three-year-old E.coli victim's desperate plea revealed - Daily Mail 15th September 2009
The mother of a three-year-old boy struck down with kidney failure after contracting E.coli at a children's petting farm said today his illness was 'every mother's worst nightmare'.
Alfie Weaver has had two blood transfusions.
Parents fear for E.coli children - BBC Health News 14th September 2009
A mother of twin boys with acute kidney failure after an E.coli outbreak at a farm in Surrey has said she fears for their long-term health.
Godstone Farm, near Redhill, was closed on Saturday - although the first E.coli case was reported on 27 August.
Mother of twins with E. coli attacks petting farm - The Independent 15th September 2009
The mother of twin boys admitted to hospital with kidney failure after visiting a petting farm in Surrey affected by an outbreak of E. coli spoke of her anger yesterday at the failure to close the farm sooner.
E coli - case by case - The Guardian 14th September 2009
27 August First case of E coli linked to Godstone Farm reported when the Surrey-Sussex Health Protection Unit (HPU) receives a laborat
Q&A: The E.coli farm outbreak - BBC Health News 14th September 2009
A children's petting farm in Surrey is at the centre of an outbreak of E.coli infections.
More than 30 people have fallen ill - 12 of them children - in what is one of the biggest outbreaks of its kind.
What is the bug at the centre of the farm cases?
Four children in critical condition after contracting E coli at Godstone Farm - The Guardian 14th September 2009
Four children, two of them twin boys, are believed to be critically ill after contracting the potentially lethal E coli infection on a children's farm in Surrey.\n\nThe identities of the sick began to emerge amid anger over the failure of the Hea
Toddler twins suffer kidney failure in E. coli outbreak - The Times 14th September 2009
Twin boys aged two have suffered suspected kidney failure in the E. coli outbreak at a children's petting farm.
Aaron and Todd Mock are on dialysis machines in St Thomas's Hospital in South London, after becoming unwell following a family visit to Godstone Farm in Surrey on August 31. The farm was shut on September 10, two weeks after the first E. coli cases were confirmed. So far 36 people have fallen ill after visiting the site.
'I have hundreds of kidney stones' - BBC Health News 12th September 2009
Trudy O'Neill has collected pots of unusual stones.
The stones are shaped like coral and vary from the size of grit to as large as five millimetres.
"They are not as pretty or as expensive as diamonds, but they are just as hard to come by," said Trudy.
Holidaymaker wins £750,000 after eating contaminated burger - The Telegraph 31st August 2009
Holidaymaker Carl Riley, who ate a contaminated burger in Egypt which left him with kidney failure, has won £750,000 in compensation.
Me and my operation: My kidney infections were banished by a tiny space-age tube - Daily Mail 24th August 2009
Stents are the tiny cylinders used to open up narrowed tubes in the body. While they're better known as a treatment for furred-up arteries, every year around 32,000 patients have stents fitted for kidney problems.
Nicola Croft, 47, an auditor from Berkhamsted, Herts, was given a new, longer-lasting version which is also more comfortable. Here she talks to RACHEL ELLIS.
Kidney dialysis machine 'small enough to be worn as a belt' - Daily Telegraph 21st August 2009
Scientists have developed a kidney dialysis machine small enough to be worn as a belt which can allow patients to receive the treatment as they walk around.
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