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    [an error occurred while processing this directive] POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE CAN RAISE BLOOD PRESSURE Nov 17, 2005
    DEAR DR. DONOHUE: A family member has polycystic kidney disease. ... RD. ANSWER: For the most part, polycystic kidney disease is inherited. ...
    - Charlotte Sun-Herald,

    Search engines fuel progress Nov 22, 2005
    ...and researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center have teamed up for what could lead to a breakthrough in the treatment of polycystic kidney disease. ...
    - Kansas City Star,

    Delaware clerk Cady, 61, dies Nov 22, 2005
    Raymond Cady said his brother had polycystic kidney disease, which is hereditary and causes increased susceptibility to aneurysms. ...
    - Oneonta Daily Star,

    AVI BioPharma Strengthens Scientific Advisory Board to Address ... Nov 17, 2005
    ...lead NEUGENE antisense compound is designed to target cell proliferation disorders, including cardiovascular restenosis, cancer and polycystic kidney disease. ...
    - Business Wire (press release),

    Fremonters are perfect for each other Oct 25, 2005
    ...when Gordon's kidneys were failing. He suffers from a genetic disorder, polycystic kidney disease. Sept. 21, at the University of ...
    - Fremont Tribune,

    KU Med gets $5.5M for kidney research Nov 4, 2005
    The National Institutes of Health awarded a $5.5 million grant to the University of Kansas Medical Center's polycystic kidney disease research program. ...
    - Kansas City Business Journal,

    An incredible decade for the primary cilium: a look at a once ... Nov 8, 2005
    ...intraflagellar transport; biliary duct; pancreatic duct; hydrocephaly; polydactyly; Bardet-Biedl; nephronophthisis; polycystic kidney disease; situs inversus ...
    - AJP-Renal Physiology

    Giving back is what life is about Nov 7, 2005
    60. Dobrosky, who lives in Meridian, Miss., was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, a disease that runs in Urban's family. ...
    - Daily American Online (subscription),

    DAD'S GIFT OF LIFE TO KENZI Nov 7, 2005
    Kenzi's family's world was first turned upside two years ago when she was diagnosed as suffering from Polycystic Kidney Disease – lumps on her kidneys that ...
    - Sunderland Echo,

    KU Medical Center earns $5.5M grant Nov 4, 2005
    Kansas University Medical Center’s Polycystic Kidney Disease research program has successfully competed along with Harvard and Yale universities to win a five ...
    - Lawrence Journal World,

    A pretty price for that ball of purr Nov 14, 2005
    ...inevitable. Maine Coons get hip dysplasia, Persians develop polycystic kidney disease, or PKD, and Burmese cats are prone to head defects. ...
    - Newsday,

    On the Calendar Nov 15, 2005
    ...blogspot.com/. 6:30 to 7:30 pm, St. Robert Bellarmine Church, 1804 Atwood Ave., Polycystic Kidney disease support group. 9 am, Salvatore ...
    - Providence Journal (subscription),

    Dinner, jazz benefit for Emily Sheppard Nov 4, 2005
    She also has polycystic kidney disease, which ensures that she will need a kidney transplant, and Hyperinsulinism; she creates too much insulin, which causes ...
    - Cape Codder,

    For young people Oct 30, 2005
    ...(920) 433-0749. • Polycystic kidney disease support group. 6-8 pm, Calvary Lutheran Church, 1301 S. Ridge Road, Green Bay. (715) 758-6052 or (920) 494-8515. ...
    - Green Bay Press Gazette,

    Family Wants To Get Word Out About Polycystic Kidney Disease Sep 24, 2005
    ...down many things to their children, but there is one family tradition Bob Gorbe hopes and prays his daughter Libby never gets -- Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD ...
    - WRAL.com

    John's kidney is just what the doctor ordered for ailing Jim Sep 28, 2005
    Jim, now 40, only discovered he had the hereditary polycystic kidney disease when he was 25. "I was playing football and got hit in the rib cage. ...
    - Scotsman

    New Walk Raises Money For Genetic Kidney Disease Sep 17, 2005
    Organizer Irvin Grant said, "Polycystic Kidney Disease is a life-threatening , hereditary non-curable disease and the walk (Saturday) is to raise awareness in ...
    - KSLA-TV

    AVI BioPharma Introduces ESPRIT With Initial Application in ... Sep 29, 2005
    ...lead NEUGENE antisense compound is designed to target cell proliferation disorders, including cardiovascular restenosis, cancer and polycystic kidney disease. ...
    - Genetic Engineering News

    Case 30-2005 — A 56-Year-Old Man with Fever and Axillary ... Sep 30, 2005
    ...axillary lymphadenopathy. The patient had received a cadaveric kidney transplant five years earlier for polycystic kidney disease. He ...
    - New England Journal of Medicine (subscription)

    Experience leads to kidney disease activism Sep 14, 2005
    By Karyn Waxman. Six years ago, after being hospitalized for a nasty kidney infection, the words "polycystic kidney disease" turned my life upside down. ...
    - commercialappeal.com (subscription)

    Woman sends unique birthday gift to meat-cutting co-worker Sep 25, 2005
    ...donated her kidney after learning that Foyt would need to spend half of each week in Eveleth undergoing dialysis treatments for polycystic kidney disease. ...
    - In-Forum (subscription)

    Walkers raise $24,000 to fund disease research Sep 22, 2005
    More than 235 walkers from around the state turned out Saturday at Colburn Park to help raise $24,000 to fund polycystic kidney disease research in the Walk ...
    - Green Bay Press Gazette

    Benefit aims to raise awareness of common kidney disease Sep 17, 2005
    South Carolina newspaper in which an article was written about three of his siblings who, like him, have the life-threatening disease polycystic kidney disease ...
    - Shreveport Times

    Walk Saturday to benefit PKD Sep 16, 2005
    Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic disorder that causes multiple cysts to grow and multiply throughout a person's lifetime, and causes the mass of a kidney ...
    - Blue Springs Examiner

    No-Transfusion Liver Graft in Surgical Tour de Force Sep 26, 2005
    Both deaths were in patients with concomitant liver and kidney dysfunction. One patient had hepatorenal syndrome and the other had polycystic kidney disease. ...
    - MedPage Today

    Personal Health Sep 4, 2005
    Diseases often strike at random, but polycystic kidney disease is more methodical. It casts a pall over entire families. Adults ...
    - Newsday

    Bluffton family works to raise funds in the fight against kidney ... Sep 5, 2005
    ...mother. But Laura, 45, Jonathan, 52, and Carol, 42, also have something more sinister in common: polycystic kidney disease. The ...
    - Hilton Head Island Packet

    Kidney disease sufferers not alone Sep 6, 2005
    Four years ago, Paganelli was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, an incurable genetic disease that threatens the lives of 12.5 million people worldwide ...
    - Yakima Herald-Republic

    Not kin yet, but bound by blood Sep 19, 2005
    Brian Cerise donated a kidney last week - not to his girlfriend, who has polycystic kidney disease - but to her mother, who also suffers from the genetic ...
    - Denver Post

    R&D Business Sep 13, 2005
    Genzyme is investigating future treatments focused on polycystic kidney disease and is working to improve renal patient care through support of basic research ...
    - R&D Directions (subscription)

    Event takes strides against disease Sep 15, 2005
    Put on your walking shoes and help raise money for medical research on polycystic kidney disease — a genetic disease that has affected 13,000 people in ...
    - Green Bay Press Gazette

    Waiting for health Sep 7, 2005
    ...blood. Syring suffers from polycystic kidney disease, characterized by cysts growing on the kidneys, reducing their function. In ...
    - Duluth News Tribune

    Walk fights kidney-killing disease Sep 15, 2005
    Lanter Smith, a Lake Zurich resident, exercises and takes other steps to keep herself healthy in the face of her diagnoses of polycystic kidney disease, or PKD ...
    - Pioneer Press Online

    Proctorville, Ohio, man seeks kidney donor Sep 12, 2005
    ...normal. Nothing about his smile or humble personality would alert you to his growing condition of polycystic kidney disease. PKD ...
    - Huntington Herald Dispatch

    Health calendar Sep 6, 2005
    For details, visit www.nathansbattle.com. The Walk for PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) will be held at 10 am, Sept. 17 at the Harmony Shelter, North Park. ...
    - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

    Rome teen seeks kidney donor for lifelong friend Sep 7, 2005
    ...provide it. Lifelong Rome resident Ed Blankenship has polycystic kidney disease. He takes dialysis four times a day. Blankenship ...
    - Ironton Tribune

    Scott: 'You passed a death sentence on me' Sep 24, 2005
    ..."Everyone rejected me," he said. Scott is battling diabetes, heart disease, polycystic kidney disease and diverticulitis. Those ...
    - commercialappeal.com (subscription)

    Groups work to raise money for hurricane relief Sep 10, 2005
    The walk, sponsored by the Atlanta chapter of the PKD Foundation, will raise awareness and money for research into polycystic kidney disease. ...
    - Gwinnett Daily Post

    Support groups Sep 15, 2005
    D-18, Sacramento. (916) 972-9722. Polycystic Kidney Disease support group: Location and times vary. (916) 489-2202. Recovery Inc ...
    - Sacramento Bee

    Dahlia: Buckaroo Ball ropes generous gifts Sep 12, 2005
    Ambassador Liam Orlando, who was born with polycystic kidney disease and underwent kidney and liver transplants, is a lively 6-year-old who blew kisses to ...
    - Rocky Mountain News

    Local canceled events Sep 24, 2005
    Educational Center. – Saturday's scheduled walk at LeTourneau University to benefit Polycystic kidney disease has been canceled. – ACT ...
    - News Journal

    Benefits calendar Sep 18, 2005
    Sun A 5K or 2.8-mile walk to raise money for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) research. Walk includes T-shirts and prizes. 9 am start ...
    - Seattle Times

    Community Calendar Sep 8, 2005
    Raffle prizes, door prizes, more. Register, 732-9236 or e-mail bhurd1976@msn.com. Walk for Polycystic Kidney Disease, fundraiser, Sept. ...
    - Standard-Examiner (subscription)

    It’s Raining Nanobacteria Sep 7, 2005
    Nanobacteria have also been linked to scleroderma, calciphylaxis, polycystic kidney disease, ovarian cancers, Parkinson’s disease, dental plaque, and dental ...
    - PR Leap (press release)

    HEALTH SCENE Sep 7, 2005
    Walk for PKD -- Sept. 18, 10 am, Walnut Park, Petaluma Boulevard South and D Street, Petaluma. Raise awareness and funds for Polycystic Kidney Disease. ...
    - Contra Costa Sun

    Go 2 Guy: On 'roids, Raffy, golf, the Dawgs Sep 7, 2005
    I'm checking myself in." ... For the second year, the Go 2 Guy will participate in the Seattle walk for polycystic kidney disease around Green Lake on Sept. ...
    - Seattle Post Intelligencer

    Holiday Inn raises $1,080 for victims Sep 14, 2005
    The Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, devoted to finding a cure and treatment for PKD, will host the annual Walk for PKD in Syracuse on Sunday, Sept. 18. ...
    - Auburn Citizen

    Night & Day Events Sep 14, 2005
    In case you're not up on such matters, PKD is polycystic kidney disease, the most common genetic disease, which affects more than 600,000 Americans and 12.5 ...
    - Pitch Weekly

    Bulletin Board: A weekly roundup of things to do in North ... Sep 1, 2005
    17 at the Harmony Shelter in North Park. Proceeds will help fund research into a cure for polycystic kidney disease. Registration ...
    - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

    Upcoming events Sep 8, 2005
    2-mile course. Adults $15 advance; ages 12-under $10 advance; $20 day of walk. Benefits Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation. Jennifer ...
    - Green Bay Press Gazette

    Upcoming events Sep 4, 2005
    2-mile course. Adults $15 advance, $20 day of walk; ages 12-under $10 advance, $15 day of walk. Benefits Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation. ...
    - Green Bay Press Gazette

    Southern Ocean Calendar Sep 14, 2005
    Call (609) 494-8861. SEASIDE PARK: A walk to benefit research for polycystic kidney disease will be held at 10 am at North Street and the Boardwalk. ...
    - Asbury Park Press

    Public Notices Sep 13, 2005
    Polycystic Kidney Disease Hudson Valley walk. 9 am, Woods Bridge Road commuter lot, Katonah. To register, contact www.walk.pkdcure.org. ...
    - Westchester County Business Journal

    Health & Science Calendar - Sep 12, 2005
    Free. Visit http://www.ucs.org or call 801-582-7783. WALK FOR PKD A fund-raising walk for polycystic kidney disease is Sept. 17 at 10 am at Sugarhouse Park. ...
    - Salt Lake Tribune

    Local Briefs: Rotarians to hear about HIV and AIDS in Africa Sep 16, 2005
    The Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation will hold a one-mile walk Saturday at Betty Virginia Park in Shreveport to raise funds for research. ...
    - Shreveport Times

    Fundraiser Calendar Sep 16, 2005
    Two-mile walk for prizes followed by entertainment. Benefits the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation. Town Lake, Festival Beach. $10-$20. ...
    - Austin American-Statesman (subscription)

    OUTDOORS CALENDAR Sep 10, 2005
    Registration at 9 am, walk at 9:15 am; must complete walk by 11 am All proceeds will go for research to find a cure for polycystic kidney disease. ...
    - Dayton Daily News (subscription)

    Yolo County Health Briefs Aug 31, 2005
    6685. PKD WALK - More than 600,000 Americans are affected by polycystic kidney disease, a common, life-threatening disease. The ...
    - Daily Democrat

    A gift of healthJul 26, 2005
    ...better life. Connelly, who suffered from polycystic kidney disease, was given a kidney donated by his daughter, Kathryn Clark. The ...
    - Elmira Star-Gazette

    Live Donation Of Organs Stirs a Debate Over EthicsJul 27, 2005
    Alan Aronoff, 45, the owner of a background-check company who lives in Pomona, NY, suffers from hereditary polycystic kidney disease — which has also ...
    - Forward

    Educating others on kidney diseaseJul 5, 2005
    Her story, in her words: Nine years ago, I was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease. My blood pressure had absolutely skyrocketed ...
    - Connecticut Post

    AVI BioPharma Reports Continued Success in Preclinical Antiviral ...Jul 26, 2005
    ...lead NEUGENE antisense compound is designed to target cell proliferation disorders, including cardiovascular restenosis, cancer and polycystic kidney disease. ...
    - Business Wire

    Paid leave is sought for organ donorsJul 16, 2005
    Vernon needs a transplant because she has suffered from polycystic kidney disease for years and her kidneys are functioning at 12 percent. ...
    - Salt Lake Tribune

    Transplant improves outlookJul 18, 2005
    Sheridan’s niece, Mali Thompson Bullard, recently donated her kidney to Sheridan, who for years has struggled with polycystic kidney disease. ...
    - Lawrence Journal World

    'Miracle child' takes life day by day while awaiting transplantJul 10, 2005
    ..."Doctors told us he had polycystic kidney disease and said we should ... Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a condition in which cysts develop on both kidneys. ...
    - Uniontown Herald Standard

    R&D BusinessJul 14, 2005
    Genzyme is investigating future treatments focused on polycystic kidney disease and is working to improve renal patient care through support of basic research ...
    - R&D Directions (subscription)

    I've been waiting seven years for kidney opJul 5, 2005
    ...life.". Maureen, 48, suffers from polycystic kidney disease, a rare condition which claimed the life of her father in his 30s. Her ...
    - Glasgow Evening Times

    Volunteer OpportunitiesJul 21, 2005
    The Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation needs volunteers to help in one or more of the following: walk for PKD, other fundraising projects, publicity ...
    - Arlington Connection

    CHARITY OUTINGS %%head%%Jul 18, 2005
    POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY: The Northeast Ohio Chapter of The Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation's "Driving Home a Cure for PKD" tournament at Hawthorne Valley in ...
    - Cleveland Plain Dealer

    Situation 'a real call to trust'Jul 2, 2005
    ...is called the BK polyomavirus. Sister Thomas has a condition called polycystic kidney disease. She said researchers now speculate ...
    - Bismarck Tribune

    Kidneys fail Kreager but not baseballJul 8, 2005
    ...hospital. His kidney's began to shut down in July of 2001 because of a genetic disorder known as Polycystic Kidney Disease. Kreager's ...
    - Tahoe Daily Tribune

    Camp shapes kids’ lives by building faithJul 8, 2005
    Joe Fauth, Calvary’s pastor. Hilt has been diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, a genetic, life-threatening disorder. About ...
    - York Daily Record

    Proteomic analysis of a eukaryotic ciliumJul 5, 2005
    ...associated protein; IFT, intraflagellar transport; InsP3, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate; MS, mass spectrometry; PKD, polycystic kidney disease; PMCA, plasma ...
    - Journal of Cell Biology

    Fishing buddies have become reel ironmenJul 11, 2005
    Let's skip to the sickness-and-health part of the vows. And let's focus on sickness. Jamie has polycystic kidney disease. He's had both kidneys replaced. ...
    - Louisville Courier-Journal

    Hometown CalendarJul 10, 2005
    Free. (920) 448-5150 or (800) 721-5150. • Polycystic Kidney Disease support group. 6-8 pm, Calvary Lutheran Church, 1301 S. Ridge Road, Green Bay. ...
    - Green Bay Press Gazette




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