therenalunit.com

The Renal Unit Website has undergone a complete facelift, adding new features which I think renal patients and carers will find useful
So what’s new?

A smooth new look
It now pulls in blog feeds from lots of renal bloggers onto the home page so you can keep up to date with all the renal bloggers. If you […]

Check it out!
The new renal blogs page, updated every hour with the latest posts from people blogging about dialysis, renal transplants, ESRD, and everything in between.
See it in action at http://therenalunit.com/renalblogs.php, bookmark it, and visit it often.
Got a blog about your experiences with ESRD that’s not on the list? Send me an email at stuart@therenalunit.com, […]

Patients put at risk by dialysis centers closing before treatment is completed

I came across an interesting article at EurekAlert.org today.
Apparently, most altruistic kidney donors end up out of pocket by their generous act.
Generally, the medical costs are covered by private or public insurance, but there are other costs involved, such as travel and convalescence.
This seems crazy, and would act as a major disincentive to potential […]

Jonathan has written about this here, apparently we can now transplant organs into people with completely different blood types.
Of course, this was done for the first time here in Australia (where all the smart people live!).
It’s an interesting read, and there was a bit of fuss here in the media a week or so ago […]

There’s been a little bit of talk here where I live (Australia) about whether people should be able to sell their organs to those in need.
Now we have a (very) right wing conservative government here in Australia, and a frustrating thing about conservative governments is that they’re really good at forcing their religious views on […]