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Every donor kidney a perfect match: no more transplant drugs!
We all hate rejection. It hurts us somewhere deep inside. And those of us who’ve had an organ transplant hate it most of all. Because the only way to make all that pain go away is by taking a...
View ArticleThe Best Dialysis Machine?
I had an interesting email from Lawrence recently, about the pros and cons of the various brands of dialysis machine: Hi Greg I’ve been dialysing for a year now on Fresenius machines and in the last...
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On dialysis and still living the dream!
A couple of months ago, Rob, one of the guys in our local BigD club at Greensborough took part in the annual Stockman’s Rally held in the upper Big River State Forrest near Marysville, Vic. Here’s his...
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Kidney transplants in China – the real story
Two days ago (7 Apr 2015), SBS Dateline broadcast Human Harvest: China’s Organ Trafficking. Just 24 minutes long, it is a truly shocking story about the source of kidney and other organ transplants,...
View ArticleStopping dialysis: Really?
Doris recently wrote: My husband has been on dialysis for 3 yrs this May. Before kidney failure he had diabetes and heart disease. To look at him, you wouldn’t think he was sick at all. But this year...
View ArticleThe rising eHealth tide is lifting all boats
Most of us have heard of eHealth – short for Electronic Health, and in its simplest form meaning the use of information and communication technologies for health delivery and management. While that...
View Articlee-Patients: being our own guardian angel
I am now in week 5 of the eHealth MOOC I wrote about in my last post. It has been a revelation. The most eye-opening subject was covered in week 3: eHealth for patients and citizens: all about...
View ArticleeHealth – What’s in it for us?
Two reasons I worked through the eHealth MOOC I wrote about last time were to find out just how big the eHealth movement is and where it was or can be successful in making life easier providing better...
View ArticleFistulas and fatal haemorrhages: what to do
In February 2010, I wrote Dialysis: death via a damaged fistula, which was about Maya’s father, who died when his sore and swollen fistula burst in bed and he bled to death. At the time I asked some...
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MSCs help us Reject Rejection
The light of rejection-free, healthy kidney transplants has entered the tunnel, and should arrive at our end in just three to five years. Last month a senior researcher from the Cell and Tissue...
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