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World Bank approves loan to sugar plantation amid concerns about kidney disease
2013-08-30 08:22:13| Sugar Industry News
A mysterious kidney disease that is afflicting Central American agricultural workers has been raising growing alarms among governments, and in April the regions health ministers jointly declared that the ailment was among their top public health priorities.
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Epidemic of Kidney Failure in Sugar Industry Workers of Guanacaste
2013-08-06 10:02:01| Sugar Industry News
Epidemiologist and Oncologist Dr. Roy Wong McClure asked the Ministry of Health and the Presidency of the Republic to declare a health emergency in Guanacaste due to the increase of renal failure in sugar industry workers.
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Man with kidney disease first in U.S. to get bioengineered vein
2013-06-07 03:00:07| CNET News.com
In a first-of-its kind procedure, surgeons implant the blood vessel into the arm of a 62-year-old Virginia man with renal failure. [Read more]
Working kidney created in bioengineering lab
2013-04-15 19:40:34| CNET News.com
Scientists build a functional kidney that can be transplanted into a rat and go about its urine-making work. [Read more]
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Man dies of rabies from year-old kidney transplant
2013-03-16 02:11:18| Biotech - Topix.net
Health officials confirmed Friday that a Maryland man who received a donated kidney more than a year ago contracted rabies and died from it.
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