Possible effects of the diet include digestive problems, loss of fluids in the body, and development of kidney stones or gall stones.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

A youngster who develops diabetes in his teens may need a kidney transplant by the time he's thirty."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

"My sister has been in renal failure for months now." "You're supposed to give her a kidney?"

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Another critic is David McCarron, a nutrition and kidney disease expert at the University of California,Davis.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Over time,high blood sugar can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

He died June nineteenth from kidney failure and a rare and painful skin disorder.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

And between thirty and fifty percent of lupus patients will develop lupus-related kidney disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

People with malaria may suffer kidney failure or loss of red blood cells.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

He was not conscious. The bullet had damaged his stomach, pancreas,and one kidney.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

And,between thirty and fifty percent of lupus patients will develop lupus-related kidney disease.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

But his life was cut short by kidney problems.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

These include skin infections, kidney disorders and even death.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

While an estimated one million Kenyans suffer from kidney disease, dialysis and transplants to battle the condition are limited and expensive.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

We know Kenyatta Hospital has been und ertaking the kidney transplants over the years, for the last 25 years."

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

Dr.Patrick Mbugua says Kenyans no longer need to go to India or other places to get their kidney transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

It's one of six kidney transplants done by the Spanish-Kenyan team in mid-March at Kenya's largest public health facility, Kenyatta National Hospital.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

The Interlife partnership is now able to offer a kidney transplant and follow-up treatment for around $4,550 - about half of what it used to be.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

At the same time, skyrocketing rates of kidney failure, caused by diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, make it urgent to offer more - and more sophisticated - transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

He's supplying blood for his sister-in-law, who suffers from kidney complications.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

In addition,the study revealed that minority children had a higher incidence of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, asthma,certain cancers, and even success rates for treatment of kidney and heart diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

People often become donors because a loved one needs a kidney.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

"Every year we list more and more people for a kidney transplant and that's because more and more people are developing kidney failure, more people are becoming candidates for a transplant."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

"If you match live donors to other healthy people in the population there is no increased risk of dying down the road attributable to having only one kidney instead of two."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11