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Last updated August 10, 2005 02:03:21 GMT.

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• RPT-UPDATE - St. Louis U.S. Attorney subpoenas Renal Care
  
• Market Pulse: Gilead: Truvada HIV combo doesn't show bioequivalance
  
• Keep Your CEO Out of Jail
  
• Ex-CEO: Merck Was Conservative With Vioxx
  
• US senator seeks probe of drug researcher payments
  
• S. Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games
  
• Russian bird flu epidemic to fade soon - WHO
  
• Judge OKs Tenet settlement with uninsured patients
  
• Drug makers object to U.S. plan for early warnings
  
• Extending options for highly sensitized patients to receive a suitable kidney graft.
  
• Emerging therapies for polycystic kidney disease.
  
• Effects of renal failure on drug transport and metabolism.
  
• Texas Attorney General Abbott Sharply Reprimands Merck For Attempting To Run From Justice
  
• Smaller breast tumors help explain better survival
  
• Fatty diet may thwart brain's fullness signal
  
• Brain disease may cause death during sleep
  
• Comparing Two Dialysis Treatments
  
• Vitamin pills don't prevent infections in elderly
  
• Vitamin C protection against heart disease doubted
  
• US scientists find flexible stem cells in placenta
  
• Type of dialysis makes a difference to death risk
  
• Obese kids have elevated cardiovascular risk
  
• Maternal folic acid level linked to birth weight
  
• Hostility adds to heart-attack risk factors
  
• Bird flu spreads in Russia, maybe in Kazakhstan
  

Clinical Nephrology

• [Pauci-immune necrotizing lupus nephritis: report of one case.]
  
• [Apoptosis and expressions of PDCD5 and Caspase-3 in renal tissues of children with lupus nephritis.]
  
• Extending options for highly sensitized patients to receive a suitable kidney graft.
  
• Emerging therapies for polycystic kidney disease.
  
• Effects of renal failure on drug transport and metabolism.
  
• Kidney studies track level of function
  
• Time-dependent effect of leptin on renal Na(+),K(+)-ATPase activity.
  
• The autoimmune response to vimentin after renal transplantation in nonhuman primates is immunosuppression dependent.
  
• 2005 Immunosuppressive Strategies in Kidney Transplantation: Which Role for the Calcineurin Inhibitors?
  
• [Idiopathic acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis with uveitis]
  
• Relationship between Cisplatin or Nedaplatin-Induced Nephrotoxicity and Renal Accumulation.
  
• Optimizing renal anaemia management--benefits of early referral and treatment.
  
• At what level of unilateral renal impairment does contralateral functional compensation occur?
  
• [Variations within OLF1/EBF-associated zinc finger protein gene confer susceptibility to lupus nephritis in Chinese population]
  
• [Tubulointerstitial nephritis with uveitis (TINU) syndrome]
  
• [Rare causes of interstitial nephritis in two children]
  
• [Immune intervention therapy of lupus nephritis must be individualized and standardized]
  
• Insights on the pathology of kidney stone formation.
  
• Increasing Dutch adolescents' willingness to register their organ donation preference: the effectiveness of an education programme delivered by kidney transplantation patients.
  
• Genetic ablation of Rhbg in mouse does not impair renal ammonium excretion.
  

Medicare and Policy

• Kidney studies track level of function
  
• Comparing Two Dialysis Treatments
  
• Short safety zone may have factored in Toronto crash
  
• Prehypertension triples heart attack risk
  
• Kidney ailments claim 40,000 lives every year
  
• Fresenius Medical posts rise in 2Q sales
  
• Novel surgery blasts kidney tumours
  
• Effects of Dialysis Type on Survival in Patients with End-Stage ...
  
• dialysis reimbursement near 1983 levels
  
• Control of hypertension fell with age, study finds
  

Financial

• Merck Sued by Apotex Over Lost Drug Sales
  
• Market Pulse: Amgen cut at UBS on valuation
  
• Ex-CEO: Merck Was Conservative With Vioxx
  
• Texas Attorney General Abbott Sharply Reprimands Merck For Attempting To Run From Justice
  
• Vioxx Trial Testimony Turns Emotional
  
• Pfizer to Cut 300 Jobs in Nebraska
  
• New Star Analyst Rankings for RENAL CARE GROUP INC
  
• Fresenius Medical posts rise in 2Q sales
  
• Pfizer's Celebrex drug to add warning
  
• Merck Jurors View Vioxx Testimony
  
• Pfizer to add warning to Celebrex
  
• Genzyme Applies for FDA Myozyme Approval
  
• FDA bans Bayer antibiotic for poultry use
  
• DaVita Inc. Commences Exchange Offer
  
• DaVita Announces Signing of Definitive Agreement With RenalAmerica
  
• FDA Issues Warning to Pfizer About Antibiotic Advertisement
  
• Merck returns to India, new patent law helps
  
• Doctor Says Vioxx Caused Man's Death
  
• Baxter Healthcare Infusion Pumps Recalled Due to Life-Threatening Failures
  
• RPT-Nabi Biopharma calls vaccine trial successful
  

Pharma

• Texas Attorney General Abbott Sharply Reprimands Merck For Attempting To Run From Justice
  
• FDA Issues Safety Alert on Infants’ Oral Drops With Syringe
  
• Galson Named Permanent Head of Drug Evaluation and Research
  
• FDA Alerts U.S. Public to British Recall of Fake Lipitor
  
• Commissioner Announces Four Appointments to Senior Positions
  
• FDA Withdraws Approval of Baytril to Treat Infections in Poultry
  
• FDA Announces Guidant’s Class I Pacemaker Recall
  
• Baxter Healthcare Infusion Pumps Recalled Due to Life-Threatening Failures
  
• Deaths Associated with Fentanyl Patch Prompt Advisory
  
• Solvay Finalizes Agreement to Buy Fournier Pharma
  

Science

• Pesticide-proof flies have unexpected edge
  
• Iran restarts uranium production
  
• Four years on, no transgenes found in Mexican maize
  
• Hurricanes whip up huge waves
  
• Bird flu moves towards Europe
  
• Astronomers to decide what makes a planet
  
• Fast sequencing comes to light
  
• Humans learn without explicit thought
  
• Beta-blockers tackle memories of horror
  
• Mysterious disease spreads in China
  
• Cats lack a sweet tooth
  
• Members of Congress probe climate researchers
  
• Seafloor survey buoys Atlantis claim
  
• Farms spew out nitrogen oxides
  
• Bacteria sniff out host's help
  

Technology

• S. Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games
  
• Medicare to Directly Cover Use Of a Genentech Stroke Drug
  
• Sample phenotype clusters in high-density oligonucleotide microarray data sets are revealed using Isomap, a nonlinear algorithm.
  
• MR-guided biopsies of lesions in the retroperitoneal space: technique and results.
  
• hu1124 (Genentech).
  
• Pretreatment PSA velocity and risk of death from prostate cancer following external beam radiation therapy.
  
• The validity of searching routinely collected general practice computer data to identify patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD): a manual review of 500 medical records.
  
• Administrative Data Feedback for Effective Cardiac Treatment: AFFECT, a cluster randomized trial.
  
• Biomedical informatics methods in pharmacogenomics.
  
• Quantum computers go for a spin
  

Medicine

• Vegetarians, older folk advised to get enough B12
  
• US senator seeks probe of drug researcher payments
  
• Skin cancer rate up for women under age 40 - study
  
• S. Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games
  
• Russian bird flu epidemic to fade soon - WHO
  
• Quest deal could hasten insurance gene-screening
  
• Petrol sniffing continues to kill Aborigines
  
• Melanoma rates in kids continue to rise
  
• Judge OKs Tenet settlement with uninsured patients
  
• Exercise test spots trouble ahead for healthy men