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	University of Maryland Medical Center Outreach Programs Increase Kidney Transplants Among African-Americans. University of Maryland Medical Center Outreach Programs Increase .....	27
	... for a life-saving transplant and 35 percent of all patients waiting for a kidney transplant are African-American? For minorities, the shortage in organ donation is particularly significant. Some ... California Transplant Donor Network - Community - African American ...	27
	Kidney failure, also known as end-state renal disease, strikes one in twelve, or 8% of African ... an "image transplant." To attract more African... Increasing African-American Participation in Nutrition Education...	31
	According to Dr. Hariharan, the incidence of kidney failure is higher in African Americans than in whites, and the transplant survival rate is lower in ... First Major Kidney Transplant Study Shows Increased Organ Survival ...	21
	> ... NEEDED TO INCREASE AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRANSPLANT RATES. Most African-American kidney dialysis patients know ... care providers and African-American kidney patients' family members may ... Johns Hopkins Researchers Report from the American Transplant Congress Meeting	28
	In Mississippi, more than 90% of the people in need of a kidney transplant are African-American. Yet, the donation rate among African Americans is considerably lower on ... Minority Issues	25
	... 15 minutes. Over 50% of the people in Western New York waiting for an organ transplant are African American. Kidney failure occurs more frequently among members of the African American community ... African Americans & Donation	20
	While African Americans account for 12% of the total US population, they represent 35% of the people currently waiting for a kidney transplant in our ... African Americans and the need for organ donation	19
	... women and children are waiting for a life-saving transplant and 35 percent of all patients waiting for a kidney transplant are African American? ... Coalition on Donation	21
	NIH Launches Pilot Program to Prevent Kidney Disease in African Americans ... are already on dialysis or have a kidney transplant because their own... NIDDK : News Briefs : NIH Launches Pilot Program to Prevent Kidney...	15
	... "Kidney Transplant Today" is brought to you by the American Association of Kidney ... genetic factors, African-American donors are preferable for African-American transplant recipients ... November 2004 Kidney Transplant Today	18
	UM outreach programs increase kidney transplants among African-Americans Comprehensive strategies cut waiting times in half. Transplant surgeons... UM outreach programs increase kidney transplants among...	18
	... disease in African American adults. Organizations American ... NIDDK, NIH, HHS National Kidney Foundation National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program ... African American Women: Kidney disease	19
	"There is a disproportionate number of African-Americans on the kidney transplant list," says Joel Newman, assistant communications director for United ... Encouraging African-Americans to Donate Organs	27
	9 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of African Americans on the nation's organ transplant waiting ... FACT: Kidney transplant recipients, both white and... Linkages to Life :: Churches Nationwide Issue Plea for Increased...	19
	... U.S. awaiting a kidney transplant are African-American 12.8% of the U.S. population, 37,098,946 people in the United States are African-American 24,093 African-Americans are on the national transplant ... Living Bank: Diversity and Organ Donation	25
	Provides information and support through research, patient services, organ donor awareness, professional education and public information. National Kidney Foundation of South Carolina	32
	African Americans represent 13% of the American population but make up 35% of those on kidney transplant waiting lists. Every day 16 people die waiting on ... National Kidney Foundation: Fact Sheets	18
	K, Sillix DH, El-Amm JM, et al Induction Therapy with Basiliximab versus Thymoglobulin in African-American Kidney Transplant Recipients. : The AMEDEO Literature Guide	24
	... out of every three people with kidney failure is African- American, compared to only one in eight in ... regular dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant in order to live ... African American Community Health Advisory Commitee	23
	In 1993, the National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program ... The three-year survival rate of African Americans receiving a kidney ... Floridahealthstat.com - Where Florida Health Data Resides	18
	... are African American and 35% of those waiting for a kidney transplant are African American. In the Greater Cincinnati area, the number of African Americans waiting on a kidney transplant is closer to ... Health Tips from SWH	17
	American Indians, Latinos Less Likely to Get New Kidney Like African-Americans, other minority groups with ... either dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. Today, American Indians and Latinos ... National Kidney Foundation: Newsroom	26
	... Measured in African American Kidney Recipients This study, led ... of CellCept in 100 African American (AA) patients compared to 91 non-AA patients who received a kidney transplant between 1995 and ... New Studies Report Long-Term Use of the Immunosuppressant CellCept was ...	18
	While the study found that African Americans were less likely to prefer ... for a kidney transplant up to 66 percent for all racial groups and genders. ... Research Updates in Kidney and Urologic Health . Summer 2001	25
	Hepatits C Infection and Kidney Transplantation Hepatitis ... Hepatitis C Who Get a Kidney Transplant? For most people with little or ... if ever, works in African-American patients with hepatitis C. Since ... Tulane Center for Abdominal Transplant: Kidney	24
	... for a kidney transplant. are African American. Since 1988 more than ... February is African American History Month. Help Us to Educate the African American Community about Organ ... www.donoralliance.org/pages/Releases/African American History Month.pdf	20
	...lead to the need of an organ transplant. This means that 13% of the African Americans living ... how to prevent heart disease, kidney failure... Are You An Organ Donor? \| Emerging Minds African American Culture...	17
	Excess Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease among African-American versus White Subjects in the United States: A Population-Based Study of Potential... Excess Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease among African-American...	51
	... up more than 35% of the national kidney transplant waiting list. To increase ... Gift of Hope's African-American Task Force includes transplant recipients ... Gift of Hope - AATF (African American Task Force) - Eduation ...	21
	When kidney failure occurs, medical treatment (dialysis) or a kidney transplant is needed. High Blood Pressure	19
	... Everybody should have a fair shot of getting an organ," says Carlton Young, an African-American kidney transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. "It's a civil-rights issue." The ... In kidney quest, new rules boost chances for blacks	19
	Derek Kee's life-saving kidney transplant was made possible through the generosity ... in African American men, who suffer disproportionately from diabetes, ... Kidney Transplant Patient Returns Home - Institute of Human Virology	25
	... More than one-third of the more than 46,400 patients awaiting a kidney transplant are African-American. There are more than 168,000 Americans who undergo dialysis. Nationally, 34 percent of those ... LifeLink Foundation - Organ and Tissue Transplant Therapy, Florida, Georgia,...	21
	Kidney Disease in African Americans. African Americans are four times more likely to develop kidney ... requires dialysis or a kidney transplant... National Kidney Disease Education Program: News & Events	18
	African Americans suffer from kidney disease at higher rates than other races, but the availability of organs that match, making them useful for transplants ... NPR : African Americans Struggle for Kidney Transplants	57
	... BACKGROUND: African American kidney transplant recipients generally exhibit poor long-term ... outcomes of 56 African American adult, primary kidney transplant recipients treated with ... Outcomes of African American kidney transplant recipients treated with sirolimus, tacrolimus, and corticosteroids.	21
	...message to African-American patients " Wolfe tells WebMD. "It appears from these data that all races can benefit from a kidney transplant. Real Survival Benefit Seen With Kidney Transplant	18
	... of Alpha-1 after liver transplant? questions about Alpha1 AME & AME Zion (African Methodist Episcopal) Does my religion approve? American Association of Kidney Patients American ... TransWeb Subject Index: A	15
	... Nation's First African-American Female Kidney Transplant Surgeon To Lead USA Gulf Coast Regional ... The nation's first African-American female kidney transplant surgeon, a veteran of ... USA Health System-News Releases	19
	Health Problems in African American Women: Kidney disease. Your kidneys clean your blood and keep waste out. With kidney disease, they don't work as well as they should-they could even completely shut down. ... by-step account of the transplant proce African American Women: Kidney disease	18
	African American Organ Donors Improve Survival Rates for Black Recipients - Kidney Transplant Gives Second Chance to Husband and Father of... African-American Black magazine sites, DrumBeats, with web sites,	28
	ADDRESSING ORGAN, TISSUE & BLOOD DONATION IN AFRICAN AMERICANS ... testimony from African-American transplant recipients who ... the kidney transplant waiting list. Since the late 1980s, donor education campaigns in the African-American community ... contacts: sarah goodwin kathi ovnic holly korschun december 2 -	19
	... the first successful kidney transplant in an African-American in New York ... Kountz, the country's first African American transplant surgeon, founded the Health Science Center's kidney ... facts	26
	... 35% of patients awaiting a kidney transplant are African American. There has been a 166 % increase in the number of African Americans waiting for organs since the mid 1990s. According to the National ... Gift of Life Trust Fund - Minority Donor Awareness Day	20
	One option for the person with ESRD is a new kidney. Transplants are most successful when the ... Some doctors believe that, at least in African Americans, ... Kidney Transplantation - All About Diabetes - American Diabetes ...	18
	... Living Donor Kidney Transplant (slp 3D) - Requires media player ... American Kidney Fund American Urological Association National ... Statistics African Americans and Kidney Disease (National Kidney Disease ... MedlinePlus: Kidney Diseases	25
	NPR Audio: African Americans Struggle for Kidney Transplants African Americans suffer from kidney disease at higher rates than other races, but the availability of organs that "match," making them useful for transplants, is often scarce. One ... NPR Audio: African Americans Struggle for Kidney Transplants	21
	A look into the lives of African American liver and kidney transplant recipients who have faced and overcome health issues such as acute rejection, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease Quantity ... Prograf®- THE EVIDENCE CONTINUES - Patient Education Tools	18
	Renal Transplantation and African Americans. Clive O'Callendar, M.D. Edited by Kenneth W. Jones, M.D. ... organization of African American transplant professionals under ... vs Caucasian kidney recipients. Among 30 African-American and 50 Caucasian r Renal Transplantation and African Americans	22
	Halasz performed San Diego?s first kidney transplant in 1968 and brought organ ... Sherley Anne Williams: noted African American writer... UCSD Times: Vol. 13, No.11, Aug. 9ÐSept. 26, 1999	16
	Ever since the organ allocation system was first established, there has been controversy regarding the allocation policies. ... of the African-American and non-African-American renal transplant recipients are shown in ... graft survival in all Africa A Decade of Experience With Renal Transplantation	26
	Publication: Ascribe Higher Education News Service \| Jun 2003. Access this article courtesy of your local library. \| Library card required Article - Better Communication Needed to Increase African-American Transplant Rates @ AccessMyLibrary.com	19
	... registered for a kidney transplant, more than 35% of all who are awaiting a kidney. African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population. In 2003, there were 861 African American deceased donors and ... ASMHTP	23
	African Americans especially are especially needy when it comes to organ transplants. Some diseases of the kidney, heart, lung, pancreas and liver are found ... Brown (FL03) - Corrine's Corner - African Americans and Organ ....	26
	Nationally, minorities account for 42% of the patients on the transplant waiting list. African-Americans represent over half of those waiting for a kidney ... Carolina Donor Services	35
	KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PROPOSAL REDUCES WAIT FROM 24 TO 14 MONTHS IMPROVES EQUITY FOR BLACKS & WOMEN ... a transplant than males because, like African... INFORMS: News Release	19
	African Americans, American Indians, Hispanics, Asians and Pacific Islanders are at ... dialysis and Kidney Transplant 8. More than 5,100 Tennessee's have kidney ... National Kidney Foundation of Middle Tennessee	16
	...list and receipt of a transplant. African Americans were less posi- tive about the medical and health outcomes of kidney transplantation than... Nat'l Academies Press, Organ Procurement and Transplantation:...	31
	...a Kidney to African American Christian at Jewish Hospital Libraries Medical News Keywords Muslim Christian Jewish Organ Transplant... Newswise	18
	Did you know African Americans are at increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease leading to dialysis and transplant? Compared to other ethnic ... Risks for CKD in African Americans - DaVita	21
	African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Pacific Islander ... Medicare Coverage of Kidney Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Services ... Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Kidney Transplantation	23
	... Hodge, MD – Program Director, Renal Transplant North Austin Medical Center September 9, 2002 OCTOBER • “Sirolimus-based Immunosuppression for African American Kidney Transplant Recipients” Don Hricik ... UIC Division of Organ Transplantation	27
	September 3 , 2002 - Nation's First African-American Female Kidney Transplant Surgeon To Lead USA Gulf Coast Regional Transplant Center... USA Health System-Centers of Excellence	18
	The African-American Community Guidebook is a comprehensive guide to educate the community on the importance of organ donation and the increading need for more African-Americans in Illinois to register as donors. ... African-Americans make up about 3 Excerpts from the African-American Community Guidebook	28
	... same age group. 1 Forty-five percent of African American men with kidney failure received late ... failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. By 2010, an estimated 661 ... Fact Sheet on African Americans and Kidney Disease	29
	The transplant survival rates for African American recipients were lower across ... for a cadaveric kidney is almost twice as long for an African American ... Journal of Cultural Diversity: Evidence for racial disparity in ...	26
	... are at increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease leading to dialysis and transplant? Compared to other ethnic groups, the African American population has higher rates of diabetes and high ... Kidney disease articles - DaVita	24
	... The Power To Prevent Kidney Disease" campaign focuses on African American risk for CKD Office of ... The National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program Web site provides ... Minority and Underserved Populations	26
	... transplant surgeon and also an African American, has been seeking the reason(s) for this ... are also African American. Unfortunately, the. kidney transplant graft survival for African ... Mount Sinai 66(4) (Page 273)	17
	Programa De la Educación Del Trasplante Del Tejido fino Del Organo De la Minoría... National MOTTEP® Información en Español	21
	... is among African American men ages 25 to 44, who are 20 times more likely to develop kidney failure compared ... dialysis or have a kidney transplant because their kidneys failed ... NIDDK : News : African Americans Unaware of High Kidney Disease Risk	18
	NIH Launches Pilot Program to Prevent Kidney Disease in African Americans ... are already on dialysis or have a kidney transplant because their own... NIH News--NIH Launches Pilot Program to Prevent Kidney Disease in...	27
	After battling kidney disease for years, then surviving dialysis and a kidney transplant, poet ... especially around African Americans and kidney... The Africana QA: Poet Sekou Sundiata	20
	First the data was analyzed for organ survival following kidney transplant by race alone, which showed that African-Americans have a 79 percent greater ... U.Va. Study Challenges Conventional Theories On Racial Differences ...	23
	Barriers at multiple steps prevent African Americans, women, and the poor from receiving kidney transplants, according to an article in the Oct. 7, 1998, ... African Americans, women, and poor less likely to receive kidney .....	19
	...neighborhoods declined by 24 percent, and that concentrated poverty declined among all racial and ethnic groups, especially African-Americans. American Non-Governmental Social Research Links (I)	25
	African Americans received 13.5% of the kidney transplants using live donor organs compared with 86.5% among the non-African American transplant patient ... Better Patient Education Could Reduce Racial Bias in Kidney ...	33
	So for a kidney transplant, "until the system is changed [so that] less emphasis is given to HLA matching, minorities, not just African Americans, ... Center for Minority Health \| www.cmh.pitt.edu	20
	... cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15589470&dopt=Abstract tacrolimus Protopic Protopic Outcomes of African American kidney transplant recipients treated with sirolimus, tacrolimus, and corticosteroids ... DreamPharm Online Pharmacy: Lowest price drugs and nutritional supplements -...	18
	SELLING AFRICAN AMERICANS ON ORGAN DONATION. At 19, an age at which most teenagers don't think they can die, Tywanda Moss learned that she was living on borrowed time. ... and one third are African American. Of the 10 ... organ transplant, three are http://alegent.iqhealth.com/atoz/healthupdate/alert02232000.htm	42
	Wright JT. • for the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension Study Group ... • ... Nephrol Dial Transplant... JAMA -- Abstract: Effect of Blood Pressure Lowering and...	72
	Panel, a panelist for the American Kidney Fund?s African-American Early Kidney Disease ... and American Society of Transplant Physicians. K/DOQI Update 2000	28
	Kidney news, newsletters, journal articles, conferences, and medical dictionary. NephrologyLinx aggregates for physicians and health care professionals current medical news, journals, and research. ... for a kidney transplant differently than nonAfri Kidney News and Updates Daily	33
	Kidney Transplant Patient Returns Home A decade ago, Derek Kee, would never have imagined being the ... each year and is more prevalent in African American men, who suffer disproportionately from ... Kidney Transplant Patient Returns Home - Institute of Human Virology	29
	All other kidney transplant patients must go on the national ... comprised of the American Red Cross Tissue Bank ... of the people on the transplant waiting list are African-Americans. The ... National Kidney Foundation: Kidney Disease	24
	... Get New Kidney. Like African-Americans, other minority groups with kidney disease receive fewer ... dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. Today, American Indians and Latinos ... National Kidney Foundation: Newsroom	27
	African Americans have a high risk of developing end stage kidney disease, which necessitates regular dialysis or a kidney transplant in... The National Kidney Foundation of Illinois - JUST THE FACTS	22
	Wait times for a deceased donor kidney transplant vary by candidate ethnicity. ... As for graft survival, African Americans have the lowest graft survival ... United Network for Organ Sharing: Organ Donation and Transplantation	29
	John's Wort after Kidney Transplant Two kidney transplant recipients had acute rejection experiences related ... relative, while the majority of African American children receive kidneys from ... Vital news for Kidney (renal), Heart, and Diabetes Patient	29
	... 7.3% of African-American men, or 1 in 13 blacks, will be diagnosed with the disorder that is fatal without kidney dialysis or transplant. Less than 2% of white women and 2.5% of white men will develop ... Why Kidney Failure Strikes 1 in 13 African Americans 6/19/02	22
	... a liver and kidney transplant, said Friday she was relieved ... ABC 7 News - Calif. Transplant Patients Seek Hospitals wjla.com ... ABC 7 News - Calif. Transplant Patients Seek Hospitals	19
	African Americans, 31 percent of the patients on waiting lists for cadaveric kidney transplants in 1990, received only 22 percent of the kidneys allocated. ... Allocation system for scarce kidneys works against black Americans	31
	The materials presented here were prepared by independent authors under the editorial supervision of Medscape, and do not represent a publication of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons or the ... American Transplant Congress 2003: The Fourth Joint American ...	30
	... for a life-saving transplant and 35 percent of all patients waiting for a kidney transplant are African American? On top of that, every 13 minutes another name is added to the waiting list ... Coalition on Donation	17
	... presented today at the 6. th. American Transplant Congress (ATC). Results also revealed a ... free therapy in 100 cadaver kidney recipients; 50 African-American recipients versus 50 ... corticosteroids soon to be history for patients on fk506	16
	... patients on the national kidney transplant waiting list. To increase the ... But a shortage of African-American donors makes it difficult to ... Gift of Hope - AATF (African American Task Force) - Volunteers	20
	Asian-Americans make up over 1% of patients waiting for kidney transplants. Clearly, certain minority groups are more susceptible to the diseases that lead ... Health Issues	16
	Health Problems in African American Women: Kidney disease. Your kidneys clean your blood and keep waste out. With kidney disease, they don't work as well as they should-they could even completely shut down. ... booklet gives a step-by-step account of Health Problems in African American Women: Kidney disease	16
	... dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain life. The Facts ... and family history of kidney disease. African Americans, Hispanics ... published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, the official ... National Kidney Foundation: Kidney Disease	26
	DONATION IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. The Black community is in desperate need for African American organ and tissue donors. Why is it important for African Americans to become donors? ... US population is African American, 35% of those waiting One Legacy -	16
	... have higher rates of kidney failure than other ... For the African American there has been a 166 ... in the number of African Americans waiting for ... is to wait for a transplant from a generous ... Press Release Center	19
	... African-American women ... African Americans are less likely to receive a kidney transplant than Europeans Americans or other minorities.189 A study reported in the Journal of the American ... RACISM AND HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA: LEGAL RESPONSES TO RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE ALLOCATION OF KIDNEYS	22
	... You can jump directly to content from Annals of Surgery, American Journal of Transplantation, The American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Annals of Surgical Oncology, Liver Transplantation, Journal ... Recent Journal Articles: Surgery -- Neurotransmitter.net	25
	It has been suggested that one of the reasons African Americans wait longer on average for a kidney transplant is because they had a higher immune ... United Network for Organ Sharing: Organ Donation and Transplantation	26
	... Many African Americans have never thought about donating their organs, even though there is a critical ... waiting for a kidney transplant are African American? African Americans are at ... www.med.umich.edu/whp/whrc/news/newsletter-april04.doc	15
	... groups—particularly, African Americans—are less likely than other kidney transplant candidates to be ... of a cadaver kidney transplant. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 30:749-759, 1997. ... 4 Chronic Kidney Disease	26
	... But the biggest disparity is among African American men ages 25 to 44, who are 20 times more ... or more are already on dialysis or have a kidney transplant because their kidneys failed. The cost to ... African Americans Unaware of High Kidney Disease Risk, March 8, 2004 Press R...	27
	... survival in simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation (SKPT), according ... at the American Transplant Congress, Transplant 2002 ... percentage of African-American patients in group ... ATC: Higher Event-Free Survival After Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Seen With Double-Dose Daclizumab	20
	...or both kidneys are so bad the person needs dialysis or a kidney transplant. (This is what happened to Sean Elliott.) African-Americans are at... Blacks and Kidney Disease: At Risk	34
	50% of the insulin they took prior to the transplant. ... the African Americans were more likely to have a history of high blood pressure, kidney... Diabetes This Week 07/21/02: islet transplants for Type 2; stem...	25
	... including African-Americans, have the opportunity to be evaluated for kidney ... They found that 76.3% of African-American women wanted a transplant, ... Health Care Financing Administration Wants to Make Kidney ...	41
	Sign up for our HolisticHealing -eGroup Your Name Your E-mail Chi Kung The National Transplant Foundation Interesting Links... HolisticDoctor.org Alternative Complementary Healing!	45
	... for a kidney transplant. are African American. Since 1988 more than ... February is African American History Month. Help Us to Educate the African American Community about Organ ... http://www.donoralliance.org/pages/Releases/African American History Month.pdf	21
	In summary, in a large national cohort of kidney transplant recipients, African-American race was strongly associated with poorer graft and patient survival even after extensive adjustment for donor and ... Influence of Race on Kidney Transplant Outcomes within and outside the ...	27
	... and more. Transplantation, June 2005 In this issue: Thymoglobulin Versus ATGAM Induction Therapy In Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients, Basiliximab Versus Thymoglobulin In African-American Kidney ... Journal Scan	22
	Should you need an organ transplant, would you as an African American get it soon ... African Americans are 2.6 to 5.6 times more likely to develop kidney ... Lifestyles	26
	News. Lymphoid Depletion Cuts Immunosuppression Need After Kidney Transplant ... the 20th Congress of the South African Transplant Society; Medscape Resource Center - Transplantation Pharmacotherapy	18
	... Drug Sirolimus Can Inhibit Kaposi's Sarcoma in Kidney Transplant Patients ... Survival rates in African Americans with colorectal cancer are also lower ... National Cancer Institute - NCI HTML Cancer Bulletin for April 5, 2005	26
	... d... Transplantation, June 2005 In this issue: Thymoglobulin Versus ATGAM Induction Therapy In Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients, Basiliximab Versus Thymoglobulin In African-American Kidney ... Pediatric Kidney Disease \| Information on Pediatric Kidney Disease	64
	The genetic factor was even more crucial for Bernadette, an African American, because the success of a kidney transplant often depends on a good genetic ... Press Release Center	20
	... P. M. in Bellevue. Public Welcome. 2004 U.S. Transplant Games, July 27 - August 1. "Let's Get Moving ... Shoot the breeze about kidney disease." Join us at the African American Kidney Health Conference ... PREVIOUS NEWS STORIES	17
	... African American female with ESRD due to type 1 diabetes presents for a simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant (SKPT ... As an African American recipient (compared to ... Question 1	16
	Scantlebury and black transplant surgeons nationwide, will partner with African American churches in cities across the nation, including Mobile, on Sunday, ... USA Health System-News Releases	25
	15. A newfound friendship sparks kidney transplant. By Joel Kurth / The Detroit News ... failing health put Lamb, 49, an African-American who... A newfound friendship sparks kidney transplant - 09/22/04	23
	... Background: Previous studies have shown that African-American (blacks) kidney transplant patients (pts) have a higher incidence of acute rejection (AR) as compared to pts of European descent (whites ... ACUTE REJECTION IS MORE COMMON IN BLACK LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS.	25
	... STANFORD - African American dialysis patients wait twice as long for a kidney transplant as whites, partly ... on genetic similarity between kidney donors and recipients, say two ... Allocation system for scarce kidneys works against black Americans	18
	ATC: Steroid Withdrawal Safe in Kidney Transplant -- Early Results of 5-Year Study ... male, 67% were Caucasian, and 20% were African American. ATC: Steroid Withdrawal Safe in Kidney Transplant -- Early Results...	18
	POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS ... of a JC virus genotype type 6 from the brain of an African American with progressive... CIN'2003. Randhawa. POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT	15
	...about 63 people receive an organ transplant, but ... of the individuals waiting for kidney transplants are African-American. Why? African... CPAdirectory - Find a CPA in Our Directory of Certified Public...	25
	Nine out of 10 African-Americans who undergo organ transplant surgery receive an organ from a ... Whites, who received 64 percent of the kidney transplants, ... Ebony: Life goes on : be an organ/tissue donor	41
	... ago a kidney transplant scheduled for Sept. 11, 2001, from a White American Muslim to an African. American Christian in ... HER KIDNEYS TO AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN IN A JEWISH ... http://www.csmc.edu/pdf/Transplant-MikeJones-PatriciaAbdullah_8-22-02.pdf	19
	The difference between the late acute rejection rate in African American vs. ... Statistics show that today, 90 percent of kidney transplant patients are ... INVESTIGATIONAL STUDIES SHOW THE IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT CELLCEPT IS ...	14
	HIVAN is seen most often in African-American men with a history of IV drug use. 10 It rapidly ... One recent study of 40 kidney transplant recipients with HIV found that the one- and two-year ... Kidney transplants in HIV patients? - RNweb	60
	Minorities Form More Than Half Of Kidney Transplant Waiting List* ... 25% of African Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have diabetes. ... National MOTTEP® Online	15
	... Aims to Reduce Kidney Failure Among African Americans The National Kidney ... on dialysis or with a kidney transplant because their kidneys ... is found among African American men ages 22 to ... NIH Kidney Failure Reducuction Initiative, June 15, 2004 Press Release ...	25
	... and African Americans, which he estimated at 75% of the transplant population. ... American Transplant Congress 2004: 5th Annual Joint Meeting of the ... Steroid Withdrawal May Be Feasible in Kidney Transplant	21
	... Seventeen of the country's 18 African-American transplant surgeons have held an unprecedented meeting in ... in Little Rock, Kountz, a kidney transplant specialist, died in 1981 at ... Transplant Week -- Your Online Transplant Newsletter	20
	Adv Ren Replace Ther 1997 Jan;4(1):40-5. Poorer graft survival in African-American transplant recipients cannot be explained by HLA mismatching. Chertow GM, Milford EL. ... African-American kidney-transplant recipients have exhibited a higher rate of Untitled Document	15
	... Kidney transplant and donor patient success stories Q&A for kidney donors UM Division of ... donors were women and 27 percent were African American. The University of Maryland Medical Center ... 1,000TH Laparoscopic Kidney Removal from Living Donor Marks Major ...	24
	... Forty-ve percent of African American men with kidney failure received late referrals to ... who had kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney. transplant to stay alive ... African Americans and Kidney Disease Fact Sheet	19
	AFRICAN AMERICANS STRUGGLE FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS. African Americans suffer from kidney disease at higher rates than other races, but the availability of ... AFRICAN AMERICANS STRUGGLE FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS - African ...	25
	Providing reports and data on solid organ transplantation. ... and outcomes of kidney transplantation in African-Americans. His ... on the African-American Study of Kidney and Hypertension (AASK). The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients is . Akinlolu Ojo Biography -- US Transplant Staff	24
	Fc) Therapy In Kidney Transplant Recipients ... Allograft Injury In African-American Renal Allograft ... American Society of Transplant Physicians Home Page ... ASTP 1998 ABSTRACTS \| American Society of Transplant Physicians	28
	... live donor transplant, cadaveric donor transplant, kidney donation, kidney transplantation, Captain Kidney, African American Health Education Program, African ... B2Bmine.com - travel solutions offers sites list 2.	36
	The waiting time for African Americans in need of a kidney transplant was halved from a national average of 1335 days to 681 days. The cost of transplanting ... Division of Transplant Surgery	18
	The African-American Community Guidebook is a comprehensive guide to educate the ... Allyson. Allyson Frazier. I have had two successful kidney transplants. ... Excerpts from the African-American Community Guidebook	21
	... However, locally, 76% of the patients waiting for a kidney transplant are African American – which is more than double the national average. These staggering statistics are attributed to extremely ... Eyewitness News Memphis - Taking It To The Streets: An Organ Donor Awareness...	33
	Am J Kidney Dis 2003 May;41(5):943-9 ... and the level of expression with allograft function in African-American renal transplant patients McDaniel... Genomics\|HuGE\|Literature\|2003 May 8	18
	... dialysis on transplant survival underscores the importance of equity in kidney transplant waiting time ... The number of African-American SPK transplant recipients more than doubled ... Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation	17
	Kidney transplants are seen as "elective surgery" because a patient can stay on dialysis "indefinitely. ... African Americans are at greater risk ... LIVER AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANT INFORMATION	18
	The number of African Americans who received kidney transplants in 1999 was 2835 compared to that of Whites who received 7600 transplants. ... MODEP: Minority Organ Donation Education Program, Inc.	21
	... been suggested. that African-American kidney recipients do not ... matched kidney transplant compared with 20% of the Cau- casians (P 0.001). The proportion of African-American pa ... MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL REDUCES THE RISK OF ACUTE REJECTION LESS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN THAN IN CAUCASIAN	15
	Kidney Cancer Association. Address: ... newsletter and a book for African American women ... National Bone Marrow Transplant Link (nbmtLink) National Organizations That Offer Services to People With Cancer...	17
	... U.S. Waiting List for African American Kidney Transplants: 22,922 (34%)* *Based on Organ Procurement Transplant Network data as of May 20, 2005 Please make a donation to the One Miracle Celebration of ... One Miracle Celebration Of Life	21
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	First pancreas/kidney transplant in U.S. by Richard Lillehei and William Kelly (American) 1967 First heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard (South African) First liver transplant by Thomas ... Decision: Donation - Student Activities	24
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	... African-American women ... African Americans are less likely to receive a kidney transplant than Europeans Americans or other minorities.189 A study reported in the Journal of the American ... RACISM AND HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA: LEGAL RESPONSES TO RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE ALLOCATION OF KIDNEYS	21
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	... for a kidney transplant, more than 35% of all who are awaiting a kidney. African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population. In 2003, there were 861 African American deceased donors and 905 ... Coalition on Donation	16
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	... failure must either receive a kidney transplant or go on dialysis. Every year, high ... also part of NIH, sponsored the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK) to ... High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease	30
	In 1991, the HHS Inspector General found that during the last decade, the median waiting time for cadaveric kidney transplant for African Americans was ... HRSA News Room - American Society of Minority Health and ...	17
	... which is designed to increase kidney transplants among African Americans ... “By improving communication among African-Americans about living donors, ... Milestones in Transplantation Surgery	23
	... transplant in. the U.S. are waiting for a kidney donation. Of people waiting for a kidney donation, 40% are White, 35% are African-American ... 14% are African American, and 8 ... Minority Donor Statistics	14
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	o 15% were African American o 82% were over the age of 50 o 39% had diabetes as the primary cause o 27 ... 3,294 Wisconsin residents are kidney transplant recipients* o 44% of these individuals received their ... National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin - Quick Info.	19
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	...pproximately 35 percent of people waiting for a kidney transplant are African American, 20 percent of individuals on the waiting list for an... Organ Donation > Summary Meeting Notes	18
	Articles about the advances that have been made over the past 15 years in the field of renal transplantation. ... and Pancreas Transplant Centers are the only kidney transplant program in New Jersey ... of one immunosuppresive agent for African-Ameri Renal Transplant News	22
	University of Illinois at Chicago Division of Organ Transplantation website provides information for transplant patients and referring physicians. ... mofetil in pancreas and kidney transplant recipients: a multicenter report ... rejection among Afri UIC Division of Organ Transplantation	24
	Full African American baby gender unknown due in ... born with polycystic kidneys and will need dialysis and then a kidney transplant before age 2... Adoption Hotline	31
	He was an African American doctor and kidney specialist. ... He developed the largest kidney transplant research and training program in the country at the ... African American Registry: Samuel Kountz, a human healer from ...	28
	... Forty-ve percent of African American men with kidney failure received late referrals to ... who had kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney. transplant to stay alive ... African Americans and Kidney Disease Fact Sheet	15
	... University Hospital, approximately 90 percent of kidney transplant patients are African American, so organ donation among minorities is of great concern to us. ... Baptist Times Inc.	22
	... kidney disease. "African-American men between ages 20 and 40 ... We don't know entirely why African- Americans, both men and women ... or who have had a kidney transplant because of failure has ... Blacks Hard Hit by Kidney Disease	18
	... Outcomes of African American kidney transplant recipients treated with sirolimus, tacrolimus ... Steroid withdrawal in African American kidney transplant recipients receiving sirolimus ... Case Western Reserve University	23
	... and mortality outcomes in kidney patients "African-American men between ages 20 and 40 have a 20-fold ... on kidney dialysis or who have had a kidney transplant due to failure has doubled each decade ... Combating kidney disease - TheOmnivore	17
	13 percent of the population is African American, yet 40 percent of those on the local kidney transplant waiting list are African American. Gift of Life: Newsroom	20
	Deborah Salley is a 41-year old African American woman in desperate need of a kidney transplant. HELP Deborah Salley	22
	Slide Tray. slides in tray: 0. Search Slides. SLIDE LIBRARY. Search: African American Results: 9 ... African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension ... While the number of prevalent black transplant patients has increased 9% since 1994, se Hypertension Online Slides - African American, end stage renal disease, Asian	45
	... and the link between kidney disease and diabetes. American Diabetes Association Home ... ESRD needs to have a kidney transplant or to have the blood ... African Americans Overview Reach One Teach One Outreach ... Kidney disease (nephropathy), and diabetes facts and information ...	20
	Why are more African-Americans more prone to kidney disease? The reason for the high frequency of kidney disease in African-Americans is not well understood ... Kidney Disease/Transplant: Health Topics: UI Health Care	33
	... transplant surgeon and also an African American, has been seeking the reason(s) for this ... are also African American. Unfortunately, the. kidney transplant graft survival for African ... Mount Sinai 66(4) (Page 273)	19
	...waiting list and receipt of a transplant. African Americans were less positive about the medical and health outcomes of kidney transplantation... Nat'l Academies Press, Organ Procurement and Transplantation:...	15
	African Americans currently have the lowest kidney transplant rate of all the high risk minority groups, with only 50.4% of African American women, and 53.9% of African ... NORD:Resources -> African American	22
	While 12% of the US population is African American, 35% of those waiting for a kidney transplant are Black. Currently, more than 21,000 African Americans are waiting for kidney transplants. For these ... One Legacy -	21
	...cell anemia is more common in African Americans ... build and develop gallstones, kidney problems ... experiments in which researchers... Sickle cell anemia	14
	African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic ... Keeping Your New Kidney Healthy: Facts About Transplant Medications American Society of ... Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Services Publication ... Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Kidney Transplantation	20
	African Americans and Kidney Disease Fact Sheet* Kidney Disease in African Americans. African Americans are four times more likely to develop kidney failure than Caucasians. ... Forty-five percent of African American men with kidney failure received African Americans and Kidney Disease Fact Sheet*	17
	The number of people already on dialysis or with a kidney transplant because ... The impact of kidney disease is disproportionate among African Americans. ... African Americans more at risk of kidney disease	29
	We studied 192 consecutive kidney transplant recipients over a 5-year period ... Keywords: anaemia; African American race; female; kidney transplantation; ... Anaemia is common after kidney transplantation, especially among .....	25
	Anaemia is common after kidney transplantation, especially among African Americans ... studied 192 consecutive kidney transplant recipients over a... Anaemia is common after kidney transplantation, especially among...	24
	... American Parameters Of Immune Responsiveness In Children And African American Transplant Patients ... evaluated in >65,000 cadaver kidney transplant recipients reported to the UNOS ... ASTP Meeting Abstracts 1997 American Parameters Of Immune Responsiveness In Children And African American ...	19
	... the people needing kidney transplants, are African-American. “ Native Americans and, in some cases, people of Hispanic descent who have diabetes are ... Health Sciences/UW Medicine NCR	14
	... on dialysis or with a kidney transplant because their kidneys ... for 30 percent of people with kidney failure. A significant ... disparity is found among African American men ages 22 to 44, who ... health4living.info - NATIONAL NIH INITIATIVE AIMS TO REDUCE KIDNEY FAILURE A...	20
	Slide Tray. slides in tray: 0. Search Slides. SLIDE LIBRARY. Search: african american Results: 11 ... African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension ... While the number of prevalent black transplant patients has increased 9% since 1994, s Hypertension Online Slides - african american, hypertension, diabetes mellitus	22
	...is rare in immunocompromised hosts, and to our knowledge has not been reported previously in a kidney or kidney?pancreas transplant patient. Isolated pleural involvement by Cryptococcus in a kidney-pancreas...	37
	Encourages dialysis and kidney transplant patients to talk to family members about their ... Features an African American woman living with kidney failure and her family. Emphasizes the risk factors for ... Kidney Disease Resources - NKDEP	21
	o 15% were African American o 82% were over the age of 50 o 39% had diabetes as the primary cause o 27 ... 3,294 Wisconsin residents are kidney transplant recipients* o 44% of these individuals received their ... National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin - Quick Info.	21
	... especially long and frustrating. African-American kidney patients across the country typically ... 15 percent of African-American patients were. on kidney transplant waiting lists three ... News2	14
	Coalition To Promote Kidney Disease Prevention Among African Americans ... have kidney failure requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay... NIDDK : News Briefs : Coalition To Promote Kidney Disease...	16
	African Americans have a harder time obtaining needed kidney transplants. And judges set higher bail for African Americans than for whites, ... PERVASIVE PREJUDICE? UNCONVENTIONAL EVIDENCE OF RACE AND GENDER ...	22
	... jection as those patients who receive a kidney transplant. from a living-related donor ... 21). A recent study in African American transplant. recipients demonstrated that patients who ... SHOULD LIVING-UNRELATED RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS RECEIVE ANTIBODY INDUCTION? RESULTS OF A CLINICAL	20
	... choice of either lifelong dialysis or kidney transplant for survival. But earlier this year, the NKF ... most at risk of developing chronic kidney disease African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian ... Woman's Day Magazine: A Simple Test That Could Save Your Life	15
	Minority Donors Urgently Needed. photo by Katherine Blackmore/The Portland Observer. Organ recipient Bernadette Artharee was given her life back after receiving a kidney transplant six years ago. ... like Bernadette Artharee, a local African American www.portlandobserver.com/story.asp?record=2305§ion=Features	20
	The African American Book of Values: Classic Moral Stories By Steven Barboza (ed) Hardcover ... be given another guidebook, A Healthy Kidney Transplant— The Next Steps. This guidebook ... Your Kidney Transplant— Every Step of the Way	20
	Among African Americans, the risk of kidney failure is even greater. ... A recent study of 45 liver and kidney transplant recipients with HIV on ... : Organ Transplants for People with HIV	14
	... will "match" better with a kidney donated from an African-American than any other race, as will Asians to Asians, etc. How are organs and tissues taken? Transplant surgeons and other medical ... AOPO - Association of Organ Procurement Organizations	30
	African Americans receiving a kidney transplant are considered at high risk for early rejection of their transplanted kidney and require more ... Clinical Trial: Efficacy of Sirolimus-Based, Steroid Avoidance ...	16
	... presented today at the 6. th. American Transplant Congress (ATC). Results also revealed a ... free therapy in 100 cadaver kidney recipients; 50 African-American recipients versus 50 ... corticosteroids soon to be history for patients on fk506	13
	... This issue hits the African American community particularly hard; as of June 2004, there were 21, 772 African Americans registered for a kidney transplant, a number that represents more than 35% of ... Dr. Ronn Elmore - Causes & Concerns	17
	DaVita provides a complete range of dialysis treatments and support services for patients living with chronic kidney failure, also known as end stage renal disease, or ESRD. ... Did you know African Americans are at ... kidney disease leading to dial Kidney disease and dialysis information - DaVita	13
	African-American patients who receive kidney transplants must wait, on average, 1185 days compared to 605 days for white Americans (DHHS 1999). ... Laura A. Siminoff and Christina M. Saunders Sturm - African ...	21
	And the risk increases even more if you are African American or ... Patients with ESRD must undergo dialysis or a kidney transplant in order to... Millions are Unaware They Have Kidney Disease	14
	... at increased risk of developing kidney disease. 5. African Americans, American Indians, Hispanics, Asians and ... Peritoneal dialysis and Kidney Transplant 8. More than 5,100 Tennessee's have kidney ... National Kidney Foundation of Middle Tennessee	16
	4. Anemia Common after Transplantation in African Americans. 5. Pediatric Kidney Transplant Patients May Have Increased Risk of Osteoporosis ... October 2004 Kidney Transplant Today	13
	... 12% of the US population is African American, 35% of those waiting for a kidney transplant are Black ... than 21,000 African Americans are waiting for kidney transplants. For these ... One Miracle Celebration of Life	14
	...matching kidney, for example, for an African-American involves more than merely identifying a donor of similar size and blood type. Transplant... RCA: General Synod 2000: Report of the Commission on Christian...	16
	...crisis culminated in a kidney transplant and ... of kidney disease and transplantation, especially as this affects African and African American... UM SPH Calendar of Events	16
	... waiting lists for kidney transplants in a timely manner. Once on the list, they also tend to wait longer for a transplant. Exact causes are unclear. Family Caregiving African-American caregivers are ... 2001.11.19a: (Fact Sheet) "Closing the Health Gap": Reducing Health Disparit...	20
	... and over 1750 awaiting life-saving kidney transplants. ... African-Americans suffer from end stage kidney disease disproportionately; while they account ... Basic Kidney Information - National Kidney Foundation of the ...	14
	Robert Banes, 35, is waiting for his second kidney transplant. Cora Jackson, 70, lost her legs to diabetes. Chicago Reporter April 1990: Sick and Poor in Chicago: Health Care...	29
	...a light buffet, cash bar and live African Kora ... from Colorado Springs living with Lupus and in need of a kidney transplant and Jesus Gallegos... Destination Freedom: Black Radio Days	21
	She has performed more than 200 living donor kidney transplants and more than 500 ... Dr. Scantlebury is an active educator in the field of African-American ... Dr. Velma P. Scantlebury, MD, FAC	13
	... Statewide, nearly 50 percent of the 1,690 patients on the kidney transplant waiting list are African-American, and, to date, three percent of all kidneys donated are from African-Americans. As of ... Excerpts from the African-American Community Guidebook	21
	... female, and 20% African-American, 24% Hispanic, and 52% white. Twenty-six kidney. transplant recipients (28%) had ... 5 male, 6 female, 3 African-American) had posttransplant diabetes ... Kidney and Pancreas	14
	... kidney failure, they constitute 70% of the kidney transplant waiting list in Louisiana ... organ transplants, kidney transplantation is the exception. African-American recipients have a ... Legacy Donor Foundation	14
	And that. 35% or all patients waiting for a kidney transplant are African. American? African Americans are at high risk for many illnesses like ... MMiinnoorriittyyDDoon noorrAAwwaarreenneess ss	14
	... some form of kidney disease. African-Americans are four times more likely to have kidney disease than Caucasians. Risk ... for an organ transplant. One in nine American adults has ... National Kidney Foundation of Kentucky	13
	Dr. Abbott's group found that cadaveric transplant, African-American ... donor African-American kidney in a white recipient, younger recipient age, ... PharmaCare - Transplant Headline News \| Last Updated: 2001-03-13 9 ...	11
	Kidney Dysfunction in African Americans HIV-associated Nephropathy (HIVAN) is a kidney ... should be aware of a kidney and liver transplant study... Project Inform's What's New? Memo - May 2001 [ HIV / AIDS...	11
	...transplant than men. Women also wait an average of four months longer for a kidney transplant. ... In particular, African American and older... Renal Transplant News	16
	...as a 15-year-old African-American girl died from an enlarged heart. A transplant might have ... promised to fill their future with kidney... Skyscraper - Views from the Top	14
	... in a multicenter, NIH-sponsored clinical trial, the African American Study of Kidney Disease (AASK ... long term outcomes in African American renal transplant recipients. J Am Soc ... University of Michigan Nephrology: Our Faculty & Staff	19
	... that are waiting for a life-saving transplant. Approximately 35 percent of all patients waiting for a kidney transplant are African American. On top of ... ..::Black PR Wire, Inc. - Press Releases Distribution - Electronic Distribution - Blast Fax - Black PR - Miami - ...	28
	Background from the Archives. The Truth About Tuskegee (Feb. 3 news) (There was nothing racist about the Tuskegee syphilis study.) Paul H. ... retiring from basketball because he needed a kidney transplant. Mourning suffered from focal segmental ... American Renaissance	18
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	In a large national cohort of kidney transplant recipients, we found that African-American race was associated with a roughly 30% higher risk for graft ... Influence of Race on Kidney Transplant Outcomes within and outside ...	18
	...vaudeville version, entitled, "Sidney, Give A Kidney" was exactly what they had in mind. Inspired by the stories of transplant recipients, lots... Laura Wetzler - An amazingly Gifted Songwriter/Singer of Jewish...	14
	A little more than two years ago a kidney transplant scheduled for Sept. 11, 2001, from a White American Muslim to an African American Christian... Marylin's Transplant Page: Rose Parade Float Focuses On Organ...	18
	... dialysis centers who are waiting for a kidney transplant. Reverend Franklin is committed to ... African American transplant recipients and donor family members worked together to bring awareness to the ... Minority Donor Awareness - Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA)	13
	... dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. That figure ... a 40 percent higher rate of kidney failure than the rest of the ... truly benefit Atlantas African American community. The You Have ... National Institutes of Health: Coalition To Promote Kidney Disease Preventio...	16
	... New Transplant Rules Aid Minorities. NEW YORK, June 27 (Reuters) -- African-American patients who need kidney transplants ... linger on the (kidney transplant) waiting list for a ... New Transplant Rules Aid Minorities	15
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	African Americans are disproportionately affected by illnesses that can lead to the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant. The lack of available organs ... Press Release Center	15
	American Dietetic Association Working with NIH to Help Prevent Kidney Disease (for consumers) Are you at ... African Americans are disproportionately ... dialysis or a kidney transplant—with little or no ... Renal Dietitians \| American Dietetic Association Practice Group	23
	... of the people waiting for kidney transplants are African American. The Linkages to Life ... research we're gathering in African American transplant patients allows us to offer ... SacObserver.com [HEALTH] Links Hopes To Increase Black Organ Donation	14
	... Industries Corporation TEAM AMERICAN SAMOA TEAM SAMOA TFTJ: News ... tipped as Sevens start East African Standard By Alari Alare ... to action after a kidney transplant, has ... Jones plays ... Samoa Globe	13
	In this model, the likelihood that an African American woman would need dialysis or a kidney transplant in her lifetime was almost 8%. Type-2 diabetes was the main factor attributed to more African ... Women's health risks and chronic kidney disease (CKD) - DaVita	24
	... The time Black patients must wait for a kidney transplant the University of Maryland Medical Center is half ... "The African American community is not often aware that they can ... Black Issues in Higher Education: Maryland Medical Center reduces wait for Blacks in need of kidney transplant - ...	20
	(1) described the first simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant for ... African-American renal transplant recipients experience decreased risk of death ... Blackwell Synergy: Am J Transplant, Vol 1, Issue 1, pp. 89-92 ...	16
	American Kidne. y Fund Public Inf. or. ma. tion Series. Toll-Free "Help Line" 1-800-638-8299 • www.kidneyfund.org. Diabetes & Kidney Disease: 1 Out of Every 3 People with Kidney Failure. is AFRICAN AMERICAN. Did You Know??? ... One out of every thr Diabetes & Kidney Disease: 1 Out of Every 3 People with Kidney Failure is AFRICAN AMERICAN.	10
	...it occurs more often in African Americans ... of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases ... According to the International Islet... Diabetes Overview	18
	The waiting time for African Americans in need of a kidney transplant was halved from a national average of 1 335 days to 681 days. Division of Transplant Surgery	16
	Quality of life and side effect profile of liver versus kidney recipients the first two years post-transplant: findings from the PORTEL. North American ... Donna K. Hathaway, PhD, FAAN	17
	... Website: www.kidney.org. North American Transplant Coordinators Organization. Phone: (913) 492-3600 ... waiting list for. kidney transplants are African American. In many southern states ... Give while you live.	18
	About 400000 people are on dialysis or have had a kidney transplant, the only treatments for kidney ... "Kidney disease is a killer among African-Americans. ... HON - News : Blacks Urged to Get Checked for Kidney Disease	13
	... kidney failure, they constitute 70% of the kidney transplant waiting list in Louisiana. The donor ... organs in Louisiana, especially in the African-American communities, in order to save lives ... Legacy Donor Foundation	13
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	... nephropathy or diabetic kidney disease. African Americans with diabetes ... treatments or a kidney transplant in order to live. Back to Top ... MIKE and the American Kidney Fund thank the National ... MIKE: African Americans & Kidney Disease	27
	... ago a kidney transplant scheduled for Sept. 11, 2001, from a White American Muslim to an African American Christian in ... fact that the transplant would be performed by transplant ... Newswise	24
	One year ago a kidney transplant scheduled for Sept. 11, 2001, from a White American Muslim to an African American Christian in a Jewish hospital didn't ... Newswise	22
	... has been often reported that African-American kidney. transplant patients have higher rates and more ... of tacrolimus in seven. African-American renal transplant patients was 96% higher ... RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION AFTER IMMUNOSUPPRESSION WITH TACROLIMUS VERSUS CYCLOSPORINE	8
	percentage were African American (25.4 percent in the CellCept group vs. 21.1 percent in the azathioprine group). About Kidney Transplants ... Roche - Investor Update Basel, 29 August 2002	15
	Key words: kidney transplant, HIV positive status, immunosuppression. Received for publication ... NonHIV African American kidney recipients have 1- and 2-year graft survival of 85% and 78 ... Safety and success of kidney transplantation and concomitant ...	22
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	E. J. Is a 29 y. o. African American male with ESRD secondary to hypertension. Admitted for a cadaveric kidney transplant. Hemodialysis x 2 yrs. Welcome to the Transplant Certification Series	13
	... for an organ transplant in Cincinnati are African-American. And 42 percent ... waiting for a kidney transplant in Cincinnati are African-American. It is important that African-American ... www.health-alliance.com/newsflash.nsf/bd0f00a1dbe339f585256b3d007aabc8/e0bb05964e46758385256bcd0055d15e?OpenDocument	10
	Key words: African-American, cardiovascular risk, cor-. ticosteriod, kidney transplant. Received 12 April 2004, revised 5 August 2004 and ac- ... African-American Renal Transplant Recipients Benefit from Early ...	24
	... Forty-five percent of African American men with kidney failure received late referrals to ... However, kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant, can be prevented ... Black Women's Health Imperative: StoryBuilder Many African Americans Unaware Of Risk For Kidney Disease - Page_...	41
	Use of Sirolimus Vs. Tacrolimus For African-American Renal Transplant Recipients. ... Kidney Transplantation, Drug: Rapamune and Prograf, Phase IV ... Clinical Trial: Use of Sirolimus Vs. Tacrolimus For African ...	27
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	... female, and 20% African-American, 24% Hispanic, and 52% white. Twenty-six kidney. transplant recipients (28%) had ... 5 male, 6 female, 3 African-American) had posttransplant diabetes ... Kidney and Pancreas	8
	Kidney Disease in Maryland. "A Silent Epidemic in the African American. Community" African Americans in Maryland make up 28% of the population but 59% 9 dialysis centers; in 2003 – 129 in. aryland, predominately in largely Kidney Disease in Maryland "A Silent Epidemic in the African American Community"	13
	American Kidney Fund Web: www.kidneyfund.org Phone: 800-638-8299 The ... low-income dialysis and kidney transplant patients, distributing ... approximately 150,000 African American nurses from the USA ... KidneyResource.com	12
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	... nephropathy or diabetic kidney disease. African Americans with diabetes ... treatments or a kidney transplant in order to live. Back to Top ... The American Kidney Fund provides general information about ... MIKE: Minority Intervention & Kidney Education	37
	... transplant in. the U.S. are waiting for a kidney donation. Of people waiting for a kidney donation, 40% are White, 35% are African-American ... 14% are African American, and 8 ... Minority Donor Statistics	11
	... dialysis or a kidney transplant for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the ... White African American vs. White Chances of ESRD 1.45 (45%) 1.56 (56%) 2.74 (164%) 3.89 (289%) *From ... National Kidney Foundation of Maryland	14
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	Kidney Disease in Maryland. "A Silent Epidemic in the African American. Community" African Americans in Maryland make up 28% of the population but 59% 9 dialysis centers; in 2003 129 in. aryland, predominately in largely Kidney Disease in Maryland "A Silent Epidemic in the African American Community"	10
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	...patients A total of 50 MPA AUC ... 0?12h ... values were measured in 21 recipients of a kidney transplant. Limited Sampling Strategy for the Estimation of Mycophenolic Acid...	31
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	... a dialysis or a kidney transplant for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States.* Race/ Ethnicity Hispanic vs. non Hispanic Asian vs. White Native American vs. White African American vs ... National Kidney Foundation of Maryland	10
	... KEEP clinic at the African American Health Summit (AAHS ... 28th in Oakland. The African American Health Summit was a huge ... in 9 Americans have chronic kidney disease. There are 20 ... National Kidney Foundation of Northern California - Education - Prevention	21
	... third leading cause of end-stage kidney failure in African American adults. ... Kidney transplant recipients must show no signs of serious liver damage ... Project Inform Perspective 33 - Article #5 [ HIV / AIDS Treatment ....	10
	...and M. H. Sayegh Regulatory CD25+ T Cells in Human Kidney Transplant Recipients J. Am. ... growth factor-beta 1 hyperexpression in... Quantitative detection of immune activation transcripts as a...	45
	... has been often reported that African-American kidney. transplant patients have higher rates and more ... of tacrolimus in seven. African-American renal transplant patients was 96% higher ... RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION AFTER IMMUNOSUPPRESSION WITH TACROLIMUS VERSUS CYCLOSPORINE	15
	Kidney International Volume 63 Issue 3 Page 793 - March 2003 doi:10.1046 ... and hospital stay in 1346 predominately African American hemodialysis... Reverse epidemiology of cardiovascular risk factors in maintenance...	20
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	"African-Americans have the best chance of being matched for a kidney transplant if the donor is also black " Caines said. The Herald - local	11
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	In another project, he investigated why African-American men have lower survival rates following kidney transplants than non-Hispanic whites - and found ... Unequal Treatment-Medicine At Michigan Spring/Summer 2004	16
	... February 1, 1956: Autherine Lucy of Birmingham becomes the first African American to enroll at the University of Alabama. Her stay at the school ended abruptly, however, as she was suspended and then ... ADAH: This Week in Alabama History (compiled by month)	22
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	...risk transplant cases (eg, retransplants), especially when the first kidney was lost to acute or chronic rejection, in patients of African... eMedicine - Renal Transplantation (Urology) : Article by Thomas D...	20
	... The published evidence reveals that African American and low-income kidney patients of all racial and ethnic groups ... in either closure of small transplant centers or, in the event of ... I	12
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	... was reported today at the American Transplant Congress, a joint meeting ... UNOS), 21 percent of kidney transplant recipients between 1991 and ... study participants were African Americans (31 patients ... NEW INVESTIGATIONAL STUDY REPORTS TWO-DOSE ZENAPAX REDUCED INCIDENCE ...	10
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	The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to living organ donation in African-Americans by surveying transplant healthcare workers and past ... Racial disparities continue to exist in kidney transplantation ...	19
	... kidney waiting list is African-American ... kidney transplant waiting list. Louisiana ranks second worst in the nation in the rate of kidney failure. African-Americans are significantly less likely to reject an organ from an African-American ... The National Legacy Donor Foundation	27
	... increase the number of donors among the African American population. "The primary mission of the ... people, waiting on a kidney transplant are African-American. But growing shortages ... The Times and Democrat - The give and take in the organ donation process	10
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	...a health policy analyst who is African-American, believes he's likely to wait twice as long as a white patient for the kidney transplant he... Worlds Apart: A Four Part Series on Cross Cultural Healthcare...	18
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	... is a great need for kidney transplants in the African-American community. In total, minorities make up about 50 per cent of the kidney transplant waitlist. As founder of MOTTEP, a government-funded ... U.S. Medicine Information Central	25
	... or a portion of an organ for use in a transplant. A kidney, or portion of a liver, lung, pancreas or ... African American (listed as Black or African American); Asian (listed as Asian, Native Hawaiian ... United Network for Organ Sharing: Organ Donation and Transplantation	21
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	Diabetes is a killing disease in the African American community, but a disease that may ... annually of renal disease requiring a kidney transplant or regular dialysis. WARNING ... African American Community Health Advisory Commitee	18
	... who had received a kidney transplant between June 1997 and May 1998. The mean age of participants was 45.82+13.15 years. Participants were primarily African-American (n=13, 77%) and currently or ... Bohn2	19
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	Type 2 diabetes is particularly common among African Americans, ... (See National Kidney Foundation brochure Kidney Transplant- A New Lease on Life.) ... Diabetes and Your Kidneys - National Kidney Foundation of the ...	10
	... Nephrol Dial Transplant (2002) 17: 198 ... failure in African Americans: insights in kidney disease susceptibility ... genotypes among African-born and African American health professionals ... End-stage renal failure in African Americans: insights in kidney disease susceptibility -- Freedman 17 (2): 198 -- ...	40
	...he needed a transplant. Two former NBA African-American stars - Alonzo Mourning and Sean Elliot -- recently were diagnosed with kidney disease. Ex-Duquesne star Wallace files suit - PittsburghLIVE.com	14
	... Wildlife Foundation African Wildlife Leadership ... World Service American Kidney Fund American ... Association on American Indian Affairs ... Children's Organ Transplant Association, Inc ... Give.org - Charity Reports	11
	3) Healthy Habits: HHS Launches African American Anti-Obesity Initiative ... in 2004 increased substantially over 2003 totals: kidney transplants rose more ... HHS Weekly Report - Text Version	9
	KIDNEY TRANSPLANT AUCTION. EBAY AUCTION HOPES TO "HELP SAVE A LIFE" FOR CALIFORNIA MAN WHO ... AFRICAN-AMERICAN DIALYSIS & KIDNEY RECIPIENT LAUNCHES NON-PROFIT TO HELP SAVE LIVES & EDUCATE OTHERS ON ... Kidney Stones - Kidney Stone Articles	28
	... findings, presented in May at the American Society of Transplant Physicians annual meeting in ... for the significantly higher rate of kidney failure in African-Americans who have undergone kidney ... Kidney Transplant, NursingDiabetics.com, Your Total Diabetes Resource	15
	... External Advisory Committee of the. African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension ... eligible for a kidney transplant. Vidalia has learned how to live with kidney failure by ... NKDEP Medical and Patient Spokespeople	10
	The number of African Americans who received kidney transplants in 1999 was 2835 compared to that of Whites who received 7600 transplants. One Solution ... Personal Story	21
	... like to send a special message to African-American patients," Wolfe tells WebMD. "It appears from these data that all races can benefit from a kidney transplant. I encourage all patients to ... Real Survival Benefit Seen With Kidney Transplant	12
	... RE-INFECTED WITH HEPATITIS C AFTER A LIVER TRANSPLANT April 2002 04-30-2002 NEW STUDIES REPORT ... OF LATE REJECTION OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS EVEN AMONG HIGH-RISK AFRICAN AMERICAN PATIENTS 04-30-2002 ... Roche U.S. Pharmaceuticals : Virtual Newsroom - Press Releases	10
	An African American. surgeon noted that Blacks are disproportionately over-repre-. sented on dialysis and transplant waiting lists. They wait twice ... Should We HLA Match Kidney Transplants?	11
	...of donated organs for patients on national transplant waiting lists. ... a media campaign aimed at New Jersey?s African-American community. The Sharing Network	18
	... Erik Lauritzen, Artist and Kidney Transplant Candidate Keith ... washoehealth.com California Transplant Donor Network 1611 ... information Ordered African-American version of organ donor ... The Transplant Network	18
	Of the more than 600 patients waiting for kidney donation in South Carolina, 80 percent are African-Americans. And after applying the national average to ... Transplant docs to study minority organ donation: 6/28	17
	... improves mental health for depressed African American and Latino seniors 21 March: Two UCSF ... 21 January: Vacaville residents to honor kidney transplant donor 18 January: Controversial drug ... UCSF News Office - News Releases	21
	African-American ethnicity ... All men with a family history of prostate cancer in either the mother or father's side... Urology Clinics - prostate cancer	13
	... failure require dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant to stay alive. ... "A disturbing trend is that ESRD affects African Americans and Native ... US incidence of kidney failure is highest in world	10
	Although African Americans represent 34.3 percent of those awaiting kidney transplantation ... and the American Society of Transplant Physicians... Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation - NIAID Minority Health	22
	...story may have been far different had it not been for a kidney transplant he received 17 years ... of the emancipation of African-American... Columns: Celebrating transplant heroics; celebrating Emancipation...	12
	...serious complications, including heart disease, blindness, kidney disease ... African Americans, Mexican Americans, Latinos, Native Americans... Diabetes News - Joslin Diabetes Center	11
	... family history of kidney disease, older Americans, African-Americans, American Indians, Hispanics, Asians and ... patients are waiting for a kidney transplant. Every day, 16 to ... Disease Information - Medical	10
	In 1965 the first successful kidney transplant in an African-American in New York City occurred at the Health Science Center. ... facts	15
	... with 26.3 percent African American and 60.2 ... the journal of the American Hospital Association ... delivery system. UAB’s Kidney Transplantation ... the world’s leading transplant program, with more ... Facts about UAB	16
	... Website: www.kidney.org. North American Transplant Coordinators Organization. Phone: (913) 492-3600 ... waiting list for. kidney transplants are African American. In many southern states ... Give while you live.	16
	HIV-infected kidney transplant recipients were significantly less likely to be black in logistic ... recipient African-American ( versus all other races) 7684 (27.6) 6 (12.8) b dialysis in the first week ... Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Kidney Transplantation in ...	16
	African American. African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension ... renal plasma flow ... renal transplant ... renal tubular... Hypertension Online	16
	"Everybody should have a fair shot of getting an organ," says Carlton Young, an African-American kidney transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama in ... 18-Jun-04	18
	...immediately determined he was in complete kidney failure and in need of a transplant. ... his physician failed to recognize that... KDKA: Local Athlete Sues University, Doctors	10
	26:252-259, 1998. Dula A. African American suspicion of ... critical care, tissue procurement, tissue bank, transplant surgeons, kidney foundation Nat'l Academies Press, Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation:...	18
	African-Americans comprised 35 percent of the waiting lists for kidney transplants. African-Americans are almost four times as likely to have end-stage ... Niagara Falls Reporter	17
	... Web Site Links Kidney Patient, Donor ... a Web site offering transplant candidates a new ... FBI Activist Files, African White Flight National ... book "Remaking the American University: Market ... Penn: Office of University Communications: Penn in the News	17
	Publications - Hani P Grewal, M.D. ... kidney-pancreas transplantation in African-American recipients: a case control study. Transplant Proc ... outcomes in African American versus Caucasian transplant recipients in ... Publications List for Researcher	17
	New in CHID. NKDEP Launches Programs to Prevent Kidney Disease Among African Americans ... Your New Kidney Healthy: Facts About Transplant... Research Updates in Kidney and Urologic Health . Fall 2003	17
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	... American donor mother and several African-American transplant recipients. Nearly 200 people attended ... Sadanand Palekar, Director of the Kidney Transplant Program from Newark Beth Israel Medical ... Whats New	13
	... Oral/injection: Insulin-dependent post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) has been ... risk increases in African-American and Hispanic kidney transplant patients. Increased ... www.musc.edu/pharmacyservices/Drugs/T/Tacrolimus.doc	10
	... the donor type of the previous kidney transplant is an influential factor. Patient ... Percentage of US pancreas transplant recipients that were African-American, by category, in 2-... [Full Size] Fig ... Blackwell Synergy: Clin Transplant, Vol 19, Issue 4, pp. 433-455 ...	11
	In 2004, 36 percent of those on the kidney transplant waiting list are African American. African Americans age 65 and older have lower rates of influenza ... Closing the Health GAP 2005	11
	When compared to whites, African American and Hispanic kidney transplant recipients, (unlike their greater survival during peritoneal dialysis or ... Cyberounds (R) > Conferences >> Nephrology >> The Management of ...	21
	... Organizations The American Society of Transplant Physicians ... for a first cadaver kidney transplant. Clinical Transplants ... South African Medical Journal. 79(5):264-7, 1991 Mar 2 ... FAQ: bit.listserv.transplant, Organ transplant ng (Part 1 of 4)	12
	Make up 35% of those awaiting kidney transplants. Nearly 70 percent of the organs transplanted into African-Americans come from Caucasian donors; yet, ... Gift of Hope - News - Press Releases - Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue ...	12
	(Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program) African American Patients Currently Waiting in Michigan For A Transplant As of August, 2005 Kidney 980 Heart 12 Lung 12 Liver 41 Pancreas 5 Kidney ... Gift of Life Michigan	14
	... States. Renal, or kidney arteries – Renal ... dialysis or transplant. Lower extremity ... diabetes mellitus. African Americans have an ... locate/index.htm The American Association of ... Heart Info - Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Patient Guide	13
	The kidney transplant saved my life, but they never warned me about ... world astride the South African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis ... hundreds of thousands of American kidney and cancer patients and ... KidneyNotes	11
	As of July 18, the number of African-Americans needing a kidney transplant in New York state alone stood at 2014, according to the most recent data from the ... Medical Initiative Targeted at Blacks	10
	...of Parainfluenza 3 in a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit ... strain (Colindale/1/66) which was grown in primary monkey kidney and African green... Molecular Epidemiology of Two Consecutive Outbreaks of...	10
	AFRICAN AMERICAN ORGAN DONATION Number of Donors Not Keeping Up With Need Black Transplant ... FACT: Kidney transplant recipients, both white and... MultiVu	14
	... NKFM Walks Play Golf Soirée on the River US Transplant Games/Team MI (select one) Patients/Family ... & Teachers News Kidney Pin Fundraiser NKFM Program Center African American Cable Television ... National Kidney Foundation of Michigan: News	11
	... requires dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant to sustain life. African Americans need to have an increased ... is highest (32 percent) among African American women aged 60 to 74 ... National Kidney Foundation of Northern California - Education - For Patients - Ten Facts About African Americans and...	27
	Volume 1, A Medical History of African Americans ... BA, Powe NR. (2000~. Racial differences in access to the kidney transplant waiting list for... Nat'l Academies Press, Unequal Treatment: (2003), References	24
	... Despite Medicare financing for kidney transplantation, African Americans are still worse off ... lower number of African American donors. ( 13) The current transplant program depends on ... Negative Effects of Organ Transplants	12
	... kidney transplantation within the State. Unequal access. is most acute for African-American and Hispanic patients at several transplant ... a kidney transplant, no matter where they live ... Texas Department of Health, Kidney Health Care	5
	... countries, in several South American and Middle Eastern countries, and in a few African counties ( in North Africa and South Africa). Survival rates for kidney transplant have increased markedly over ... The End of the Body	10
	...the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education ... So that means more African Americans need kidney transplants. Because the wait for a kidney... Walk and fun run to raise organ donation awareness is Saturday on...	10
	... induction therapy in African American kidney transplant recipients; Abstract published ... transplant diabetes mellitus in African American kidney transplant recipients; Abstract ... www.uams.edu/dim/bios/word_docs/kumar.doc	12
	... the African-American faith community, public health practitioners and transplant recipients ... anemia and kidney disease - which disproportionately affect African-Americans - and ... www.whsc.emory.edu/_releases/1998july/072598organ.html	14
	...as a 15-year-old African-American girl died from an enlarged heart. A transplant might have ... promised to fill their future with kidney... "Why We Eat" by Stephanie Mencimer	11
	... original kidneys, a transplant may be necessary. Among African Americans, the risk of kidney failure is ... of end-stage kidney disease in all African-American men. Long-term kidney ... : Organ Transplants for People with HIV	9
	... kidney transplantation · liver transplantation · liver transplant · kidney transplants · broader sharing · african american · percent transplanted ... Active Skim View of: 3 Access to Transplantation	27
	...of African Americans included in these studies. During his presentation, Dr. Bourgoignie described AASK (African-American Study of Kidney... Deadly Disease Symposium, Miami, FL	9
	Randall mentioned the African-American Study of Kidney Disease (AASK) clinical trial currently being conducted to determine if kidney disease... Deadly Disease Symposium, Washington, DC	11
	Eyewitness News - Investigating, Uncovering, Getting Results. ... population is African American. 35% of the national kidney list is African-American. However, locally, 76 ... waiting for a kidney transplant are African American – which is more tha Eyewitness News Memphis - Taking It To The Streets: An Organ Donor Awareness Campaign	10
	...autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplant in ... Medicine/Hypertension Wright, Jackson T., Jr. African American study of kidney disease... General Clinical Research Center - Current Research	13
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	African-Americans receiving kidney transplants are at much greater risk of rejecting the new organ than Caucasians. But newer drugs that suppress the immune ... June 13 - 20, 2003	21
	... Early Kidney Transplant May Benefit Some Diabetics (01/19/2006, Reuters ... Related Issues African Americans and Diabetes (National Institute ... Organizations American Diabetes Association National Diabetes ... MedlinePlus: Diabetes	13
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	Mrs. B. is a 47 year old African-American female who was referred to CareMed Chicago for post-kidney transplant home care. Social Services Case Study	16
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	The ethical questions such a gift would raise for transplant surgeons would ... He is white and the recipient of his kidney is African-American. Wichita Eagle \| 08/17/2003 \| Kidney donor now hopes to give 2nd away	16
	... regimens of kidney transplant patients at high ... kidney function following transplant, having undergone previous transplants, or being of African-American heritage ... AST MEETING: Zenapax Reduces Kidney Rejection Risk	12
	Approximately one-third of the individuals waiting for kidney transplants are African-American. Why? African Americans are 17 times more likely than ... CPAdirectory - Find A CPA In Our Directory Of Certified Public ...	10
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	... of the recipients were African American and 24 percent of all ... the incidence of kidney failure is higher in African Americans than in whites and the transplant survival rate is ... First Major Kidney Transplant Study Shows Increased Organ Survival Rates: MCW News Release 03-01-2000	13
	... recurrence in liver transplant recipients. American Transplant Congress, April 2002, Washington ... Lupus nephritis in African-American kidney transplant. recipients carries a poor ... G. Mark Baillie, Pharm.D., MHA	9
	Excess Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease among African-American versus White Subjects in the ... London Nephrol Dial Transplant 2001;16:475-478. FULL TEXT ... JAMA -- Abstract: End-stage renal disease in African-American and ....	12
	African-Americans are more than twice as likely to die of kidney disease as whites. ... and 78 waiting for a kidney and pancreas transplant in... Kidney	12
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	... waiting lists for kidney transplants in a timely manner. Once on the list, they also tend to wait longer for a transplant. Exact causes are unclear. Family Care-giving African-American caregivers are ... Nutrition Perspectives November-December 2001	11
	... recent and long-term kidney transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation, 3 ... overweight effects cardiovascular risk in African American youth with and without type ... Patricia A. Cowan, PhD, RN	17
	...a third of the ESRD population is African-American ... the National Kidney Foundation; the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program; Press Release by Congressman Cummings	10
	"African-American men between ages 20 and 40 ... with kidney disease. The number of Americans on kidney dialysis or who have had a kidney... statesman.com	10
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	Kidney transplants are now performed in most American, European and Asian countries, as ... and four African states. Heart, liver and heart ... A kidney transplant, which is now almost a 'routine ... Untitled Document	8
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	... It's not surprising, then, that African-American men with kidney failure are more likely than ... Medications for kidney transplant recipients who lack insurance coverage can cost about ... A Cry for Help - Featured Stories	13
	Of that number 21062 African-Americans,. 9661 Hispanics, 3648 Asians and 23609. White Americans are waiting for a kidney. transplant. ... African A. Need to Know #1.pub	8
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	... The world's first successful kidney transplant was done by Charles Hufnagel, Georgetown's ... rejection less in African-American than in white kidney recipients. Transplantation 65 ... Georgetown University Medical Center Transplant Institute	13
	... about the factors that uniquely affect African Americans with kidney disease. TRANSPLANT SURGEONS ... voted one of the top 100 African-American doctors in the country ... HUH Transplant endowed chair	9
	... some of his later transplant recipients survived ... Dorticus was an African-American inventor who ... DEAN Dean Kamen is an American inventor who has ... open) and the portable kidney dialysis machine ... Late Twentieth Century Inventors and Inventions: EnchantedLearning.com	9
	Educate kidney transplant recipients about the risk of melanoma in addition to ... African American transplant recipients had seven times lower odds of ... Melanoma Risk Up Almost Fourfold After Kidney Graft - CME Teaching ...	8
	Kidney Transplant: A New Lease On Life $23 per 100 Peritoneal Dialysis ... written for the African-American community, it describesthe increased risk of high blood pressure ... National Kidney Foundation of Florida	10
	... Washington, DC, Apr. 22 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union Friday challenged the ... support of medicinal marijuana. "I have a kidney transplant patient from Sacramento State who gets ... Newest Articles:	9
	People who receive a kidney transplant are nearly four times more likely to develop ... with age- but significantly lower in women and African-Americans. ... Skin Cancer Symptoms and Treatment > Kidney Transplant Patients ...	9
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	... percent of people waiting for a kidney transplant are African American. Black men who suffer from hypertension, which can lead to kidney failure, are 20 times more likely ... WALB-TV, Albany. South Georgias #1 News Source: NFL Star speaks to Albany church	27
	METHODS: We prospectively enrolled 44 African American kidney transplant recipients to participate in an uncontrolled trial in which they were initially ... Withdrawal of steroid therapy in African American kidney ...	11
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	... Transplant Alliance, after receiving a cadaver kidney from a White male. ... Although Barrett was the first African-American contestant to win Miss Teen ... Article - Departments	10
	... and Research Foundation - NY African Wildlife Foundation - DC ... Foundation - NC American Kidney Fund - MD American Land ... Yad Vashem - NY American Society of Transplant Surgeons - VA ... Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator	10
	As of June 2004, there were 24,610 African Americans registered on the U.S. transplant waiting list compared to 6,598 in 1991, a 373% increase. ... kidney transplant, more than 35% of all who are awaiting a kidney. African Americans make up 12% of th Coalition on Donation	10
	News Release Mike Jones, kidney recipient, organ donor educator, contributing author to the newly released book Chicken Soup for the African-American Soul, ... Desperate Need for African-American Organ and Tissue Donors ...	10
	Diabetes After Kidney Transplant on the Rise. - Experts meet to discuss the best way to prevent, manage this potentially deadly condition - NEW YORK, Sept. ... transplant complications and death, according to a new report released today in the Americ Diabetes After Kidney Transplant on the Rise	20
	... these problems can lead to kidney failure, gangrene and ... groups: African American, Native American, Asian American, and ... prednisone) Medicines transplant recipients receive (example ... DIABETES Improvement Secrets That You Need To Know! Diabetes Improvement Inf...	8
	American Kidne. y Fund Public Inf. or. ma. tion Series. Toll-Free "Help Line" 1-800-638-8299 • www.kidneyfund.org. High Blood Pressure & Kidney Disease: 1 Out of Every 3 People with Kidney Failure is. AFRICAN AMERICAN. Did You Know??? ... One out o High Blood Pressure & Kidney Disease: 1 Out of Every 3 People with Kidney Failure is AFRICAN AMERICAN	13
	... Kidney Transplant Wait Time For African Americans. Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center have nearly halved the time African-American ... a kidney transplant, but black ... kaisernetwork.org	10
	of patients awaiting. kidney transplants. are African American. 35. %. Loletha’s Story. Loletha Glover waited nearly four. years for a new kidney. ... lives will be saved if you do nothing	11
	Every month, the number of Americans waiting for kidney transplants increases. ... African American men, and men with a family history of prostate cancer ... National Kidney Foundation of Northern California - What's New ...	14
	Kidney / liver / pancreas transplant recipients: Call toll-free 1-866-884-7387 Heart / lung ... population groups were: 982 for African Americans; 514 for American Indians, 344 for Asian ... National Kidney Foundation: News and Events:Press Releases	11
	"Thirty-five percent of those that need kidney transplants are African American. We are not thirty-five percent of the population. ... Organ Donation: The Gift of Life	7
	... from the American Kidney Fund web site Kidney ... Ten Facts about African-Americans and Kidney Disease from the NKF ... January issue of Kidney Transplant Today an ... RenalWEB Topic - Dialysis Patient Educational Resources	10
	... you may eventually need dialysis or a kidney transplant. This brochure can answer many of the ... Learn about the great need for kidney donors in the African American community and facts about being ... Request Materials	16
	A kidney transplant is most successful when the donor and recipient are the same race or ethnicity ... Twelve percent of the U.S. population is African American. What percentage of patients awaiting ... Southwest Transplant Alliance	9
	... transplant, damaging the transplanted kidney." This study seeks FSGS ... from 200 African-American patients with FSGS ... The NephCure Foundation	8
	... explored listing among transplant-eligible African American and white men and ... perspectives of African American and white hemodialysis patients about kidney transplant. Examine the ... The relationship between patients' perceptions of disadvantage and discrimination and listing for kidney transplant	12
	... the kidney connection - As African Americans across the country ... in the July Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ... which have kidney stones for living donor transplant has little ... TheHerpesFormula.com :: Herpes, Cold Sore, Shingles (Symptom Relief)	12
	Mourning, who has undergone a kidney transplant, holds an annual charity game in Miami known as ?Zo?s Summer Groove.? At an NBA Players Association news ... African-American.com	10
	... Journal of the American Geriatrics Society ... Journal of Zoology Kidney International Kyklos ... Somnologie South African Journal of Economics ... Transfusion Medicine Transplant Infectious Disease ... Back/Single Issue Order Form	9
	Outcomes of African American kidney transplant recipients treated with sirolimus, tacrolimus, and corticosteroids. Transplantation 2002; 74 : 189–193. 21. Dickinson DM, Ellison MD, Webb RL. Data ... Blackwell Synergy: Am J Transplant, Vol 4, Issue 12, pp. 2058-2066 ...	9
	Of those, nearly 400000 require dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. ... vulnerable to kidney disease - African-Americans, American Indians, ... Communication at CDC: Entertainment Education: Resources for TV ...	9
	... referrals, and more for African-American, Asian, Hispanic ... including American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Journal ... NKF MD, NKF Family Focus, Transplant Chronicles, and For Those ... Directory of Diabetes Organizations	8
	African-Americans, who represent 27% of the national population, receive more than 40% of all kidney transplants. Because of specific medical conditions, ... Fast Facts	10
	... recurrence in liver transplant recipients. American Transplant Congress, April 2002, Washington ... Lupus nephritis in African-American kidney transplant. recipients carries a poor ... G. Mark Baillie, Pharm.D., MHA	4
	... Robert: An African American man with End Stage Renal Disease who is awaiting a kidney transplant. Addresses issues of racial/ethnic disparities in medical care. " Alicia: A Puerto Rican woman with ... Galanti \| Cultural Diversity in Healthcare	8
	... Detroit's large African American population is home to an extraordinary number of high-risk kidney and pancreas transplant candidates. Ninety-two percent of patients treated by Harper University ... Harper University Hospital	14
	In the southeastern United States, the estimated prevalence of chronic kidney disease due to hypertension is five times greater for African Americans than ... Kidney International - Hypertension, glomerular number, and birth ....	8
	... Additionally, transplant surgeons ... African-American organ donors, your organs will go to white people and never other African-Americans. FACT: If you donate an organ, such as a kidney ... MODEP: Minority Organ Donation Education Program, Inc.	10
	... from the African-American faith community, public health practitioners and transplant recipients ... anemia and kidney disease-which disproportionately affect African-Americans-and many ... More black organ donors needed for transplant patients	10
	... of the already established liver, kidney and small bowel transplant programs. It has been active since 1994. ... African-American patients account for 27 percent of Rush's pancreas transplant patients ... Pancreas Transplant Services	7
	When a patient with diabetes is receiving a kidney transplant from a living relative, it is usually ... Other Events & Fund Raisers · For African Americans ... Pancreas Transplantation - All About Diabetes - American Diabetes ....	8
	... identify dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients in case of emergency. ... with their clients about chronic kidney disease and its causes. The African American population is at an increased ... Sunshine Thrift Store - National Kidney Foundation of Michigan	8
	... why African Americans kidney transplants generally have to wait longer for a kidney transplant than ... at the American Society of Minority Health and Transplant Professionals annual ... Transplant Week - Your Online Transplant Newsletter	8
	African American Organ, Tissue, And Marrow Recipients Needed To Save Thousands of ... Jennifer Cox had her kidney transplant on July 29, 1995. Since then, kidney disease ... Untitled	8
	... on dialysis, a timelier transplant actually improves survival ... Given a certain injury in the kidney where another person might ... no loss of function, the African-American may scar the area and ... Virtual Hospital: Department of Internal Medicine: Kidney Disease/Transplant	9
	... 5 to 6 percent of the population is African American, but 20 percent of dialysis patients, the people needing kidney transplants, are African American." ... WE, Washington Education -- Health Watch ... The matching game ...	12
	African Americans cope with the need for a kidney transplant differently than non–African Americans. Potential African-American kidney recipients are more likely to deny the need for a transplant ... xenotransplantation	10
	... is African American? • Did you know that 35 percent of patients awaiting a kidney transplant are African American? • Did you know that 48 percent of patients awaiting a kidney transplant in ... After a long and cold Michigan winter, we look forward to ...	10
	Reducing Rejection: Combination Therapy for Kidney Transplant Recipients ... previous transfusions or pregnancies, and patients of African-American descent. ... Clinical Research News, Reducing Rejection: Combination Therapy ...	11
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	Thirty-five percent of those awaiting kidney transplants in the United States are African-American. In South Carolina, African-Americans account for ... Gift of Life Trust Fund - Get the Facts	8
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	Callender, C.O.: "Kidney Transplant Allocation in America: An African American Transplant Surgeon's Perspective," Current Opinions, in Clinical Transplant, Vol 11, pp. 356-357, 1995. Callender, C ... National MOTTEP® Online	14
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	A kidney transplant gives patients with end-stage kidney disease a clear survival ... "I would like to send a special message to African-American patients," ... Real Survival Benefit Seen With Kidney Transplant	11
	Siminoff LA, Arnold R. Increasing organ donation in the African-American community: altruism in the face of an untrustworthy system. Ann Intern Med 1999;130(7):607-9. ... factors: (1) only kidney transplant requires HLA matching and (2) African Ameri Untitled Document	9
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	A study on the importance of finding a well-matched kidney supports the contentious idea that distributing transplant organs nationwide improves the chances they will get to those who will benefit most. ... people who got a perfectly matched kidney t CNN.com - Health - Study supports national kidney transplant exchange - October 12, 2000	8
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	African-Americans currently comprise about 75% of South Carolinians on the waiting list to receive a kidney transplant. Meanwhile, Whites outnumber Blacks ... Gift of Life Trust Fund - Questions and Answers	9
	Additionally, we treat large numbers of African-Americans, allowing us to ... The long-term results of living-donor kidney transplants between unrelated ... Harper Kidney Transplant Center - Overview	11
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	Indiana Organ Procurement Organization (IOPO) is a nonprofit agency dedicated to advancing organ, tissue, and eye donation throughout Indiana. ... He had a kidney transplant 10 years ago after going into ... treated for kidney failure versus 11 of 10 IOPO - Indiana Organ Donation Organization	14
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	A kidney transplant gives patients with end-stage kidney disease a clear survival benefit compared to patients who remain on dialysis, according to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine. ... African-American patients," Wolfe tells WebMD. Real Survival Benefit Seen With Kidney Transplant	7
	... Minorities Blacks or African Americans Hispanics or Latinos Asians American Indians and Alaska ... Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who receive a transplant within 3 years of registration ... Site Map	9
	percent of African American families consented to donation. "A key message to get across on Minority ... black, 35 percent of those waiting for a kidney transplant are black. Currently, more than 23,000 ... Southwest Transplant Alliance	9
	... with the development of post-transplant diabetes. African American and Hispanic patients appear to be at ... Black and Hispanic kidney transplant patients were at an increased risk. Reducing the ... Transplantlife \| Transplant Community	8
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	Price: $9.95. Publication: Black Issues in Higher Education. May 2002. Immediate Online Delivery. Excerpt: " Baltimore The time Black patients must wait for a kidney transplant the... Article: "Maryland Medical Center Reduces Wait for Blacks in Need of Kidney Transplant." - Black Issues in Higher ...	9
	percent of the kidneys donated for transplants come from African American donors. It is harder to. get a good match using a kidney from a Caucasian donor ... BAPTIST SERMON	8
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	... Charlie is a 46-year old African-American male who received a lung transplant. He was diagnosed eight ... glasses of milk each day. He has no history of kidney disease or kidney stones, no fractures or ... naturopathy	8
	... twice as long for a kidney transplant as non-African Americans because there simply aren't enough ... Increased support in the African American community for organ donation could go ... Rep. Corrine Brown - Press Releases	8
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	King is on the list for a kidney transplant, but finding a good match is especially tough for African Americans in King County, where the pool of eligible ... First defense in fighting kidney disease: Awareness	8
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	... in 2000, and had a kidney transplant in 2003. Since then ... Chronic kidney disease also is more common among African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans ... Islanders and American Indians. It is particularly ... Investor Relations - News Releases	13
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	... Newswise African American churches and black transplant surgeons nationwide will take part in the ... so long, I quit waiting," said recent kidney transplant recipient Joann C ... Plea for Increased Rates of African American Organ Donation	10
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	... three and a half years she waited for a kidney transplant, retired paralegal Mia Ray left her home ... it, or even think it," says Ray, who is African-American. "But it was very rare that I knew someone ... Who Gets the Organs? - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com	9
	The incidence of ESRD among African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asians/Pacific ... renal replacement therapy (either a kidney transplant or dialysis). Without one of these ... 2003	8
	October 22, 2003. news. NIH Launches Pilot Program for Prevention of Kidney Disease in African Americans ... chosen for their relatively large African American communities and because some resources already ... on dialysis or have a kidney transplant AJCP	9
	In contrast, Chakerra et al. reported that in a large national cohort of kidney transplant recipients, African American race was strongly associated with ... American Journal of Transplantation - Fulltext: Volume 5(11 ...	9
	African Americans comprised 35 percent of the waiting lists for kidney transplants. African Americans are almost four times as likely to have end-stage ... Black Women's Health Imperative: StoryBuilder Eliminating African ...	17
	... AP) (2005-05-09 04:04:40) African Aid Is Doubled By G-8 ... George Lopez Undergoes Kidney Transplant (AP) (2005-04-26 04:05 ... 05-17 04:04:24) Kidnapped American in Iraq Shown on Video (AP ... findword news index	63
	The treatment for kidney failure is dialysis or a kidney transplant. ... On average, African-Americans develop kidney failure at an earlier age (57 years) ... InteliHealth:	11
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	African-American men between ages 20 and 40 have a 20-fold increased risk of kidney failure ... on kidney dialysis or who have had a kidney transplant due to failure has doubled each decade for ... HON - News : Blacks Hard Hit by Kidney Disease	9
	... proportion of recipients, especially African-American patients, benefit from this system. During ... allograft may even protect a subsequent kidney transplant from hyperacute rejection. Tissue Typing ... Introduction to Transplantation	9
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	... Kidney Transplant Allocation in America: An African American Transplant Surgeon's Perspective," Current Opinions, in Clinical Transplant, Vol 11, pp. 356-357, 1995. Callender, C.O.: "Liver Allocation ... National MOTTEP® Online	9
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	... end stage kidney disease in African-Americans, accounting ... for every African-American diagnosed with ... kidney disease. Diabetes is considered almost epidemic among African-American ... the mission of the national kidney foundation of the national ...	8
	... the person receives a kidney transplant. CKD also. increases the risk of cardiovascular ... particularly African American men, do not receive. referrals to kidney specialists, known as ... Focus	7
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	... in stark contrast to rates for their African American counterparts, which have not budged. "It's ... 537,000 people received dialysis or a kidney transplant. The cost to Medicare was $18.1 billion ... Kidney failure rates end 20-year climb, racial disparities persist ...	22
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	Pittsburgh, PA. Thursday. January 12, 2006 ... waiting list for a kidney transplant at the University of ... a compatible kidney. "The point is to recognize that if an African American today receives a transplant that's very ... Minorities lag in receiving transplants and heart surgeries	9
	... 123 eligible kidney transplant recipients agreed to ... African American, and 1% were Asian/Pacific Islander. Forty-six percent of interviewed kidney transplant recipients ... Prevalence and Severity of Urinary Incontinence in Kidney Transplant Recipients - Heit et al. 103 (2): 352 - ...	9
	... According to the African American Study of Kidney Disease, sponsored by the National Institute of ... suffering from kidney failure generally have two options - a transplant or dialysis ... SacObserver.com [HEALTH] Why You Should Give Beans About Your Kidneys	9
	... 50% of the people who are waiting for organs on the kidney transplant waiting list. ... African Americans wait longer for organs than their Caucasian ... Severe Shortage of Organs Leaves 85000 Americans on Transplant ...	9
	On the national list for a kidney transplant, he received dialysis for a ... on the African American community, which is most at risk for kidney disease and ... Sundiata Recounts Kidney Transplant In Acclaimed One-Man Show	8
	Because Brown is African American. At least, he thought he was. Due to usually having stronger immune systems than whites, black transplant recipients will ... Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Cover Story 12 21 02	8
	... his need for a kidney transplant is an opportunity to ... them are African. American. Of the 121 African Americans on the waiting list, 97 are waiting for a kidney transplant ... www.donoralliance.org/pages/Releases/11252003.pdf	9
	... of all patients waiting for a kidney transplant are African-American? For minorities, the shortage in organ ... Some diseases of the kidney, heart, lung, pancreas and liver are found ... www.organ.org/www_redesign/CommunityOutreachPRKit.doc	9
	... Program raise awareness, particularly within the African-American community, about the need for organ ... father John Emerson, and he needs a kidney transplant," she said tearfully ... Aetna Supports 'Gift Of Life' Event In Philadelphia	9
	of Health (NIH), African Americans are about four times more likely than ... However, kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant, ... Many African Americans unaware of risk for kidney disease Kidney .....	9
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	... of in the African American community," said Bronson, who is African American ... a transplant, including diabetes, heart disease, obesity and kidney disease. "African Americans ... Organ donations crucial for blacks / S.F. church touts donor awareness	13
	... transplant recipients (6%) have type 2 diabetes (2). At one center, patient, pancreas, and kidney graft survival were also similar between African-American ... African-American and 16 ... Pancreas Transplantation: Indications and Consequences - Larsen 25 (6): 919 - Endocrine Reviews	9
	Race Influences Outcome of Liver Transplants, According to Hopkins Study. African Americans and Asians have a worse outcome than white Americans and ... Race Influences Outcome of Liver Transplants, According to Hopkins ...	9
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	... in organ failure and the need for a kidney transplant. In fact, Native-Americans have the highest rates of diabetes, followed by African-American and Hispanics. (Source: American Diabetes Association ... Florida Coalition on Donation	13
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	... kidney disease and in need of a transplant ... kidney failure do not find themselves as fortunate as Sundiata, who is, according to the Village Voice, "to contemporary African-American ... Poet expresses health crisis through art	5
	More than 56000 patients are on waiting lists for kidney transplants nationwide. ... particularly African Americans, who have four times the risk of kidney ... SAN FRANCISCO / Kidney swaps keep patients alive with a series of ....	13
	86000 men, women and children are waiting for a life-saving transplant and 35 percent of all patients waiting for a kidney transplant are African-American. ... Students Learn About Organ Donation	11
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	... you must have dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. The increase ... blood pressure, such as African Americans, Hispanic Americans ... Pacific Islanders, and American Indians. For more information, go ... Doctors in West Tennessee Physicians' Alliance	9
	... his need for a kidney transplant is an opportunity to ... them are African. American. Of the 121 African Americans on the waiting list, 97 are waiting for a kidney transplant ... http://www.donoralliance.org/pages/Releases/11252003.pdf	6
	RenalWEB Dialysis Discussion Groups, moderated by dialysis industry experts. ... Transplant surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center say they have increased kidney transplantation for African ... more than 2,500 African-American women ha JAMA: Blacks Get Poorer Medical Care - RenalWEB Dialysis Nephrology Kidney Discussion Boards	9
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	... disease require either regular dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. "This is the only report of this type in African-Americans," said Friedman, ... Severe kidney disease in blacks linked to genes on two chromosomes	9
	... kidney disease and is waiting for an organ match for kidney transplant. ... Why are the survival rates lower for African Americans and perhaps other ... Teleconference Transcripts: Severe Shortage Leaves 85000 Americans ...	9
	... "African-American men between ages 20 and 40 have a 20-fold increased risk of kidney failure compared to ... who have had a kidney transplant due to failure has ... USATODAY.com - Blacks hard hit by kidney disease	9
	American Kidney Fund. 6110 Executive Boulevard, Suite 1010. Rockville, MD 20852. December 2003. 301-881-3052 ... provides emergency funds to kidney dialysis and transplant facilities and provides individual ... strategies for preventing kidney diseas CBBB Wise Giving Alliance	10
	The incidence of ESRD among African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asians/Pacific ... transplants: transplant primer - kidney transplant [Fact Sheet]. Available at: http://www ... End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)	9
	... hearts do not survive as long in African American children as in Caucasian kids. J07 CJASN ... A06 Kidney transplant can markedly improve patients with severe heart failure. A06 Got a kidney stone ... HDCN News Archive	9
	... cause of kidney failureare a major issue for both the Native American and Hispanic populations ... down by organ. African-Americans comprise 35% of the kidney transplant waiting list ... Healthcare Professionals Gear Up for National Donate Life Month	5
	... in stark contrast to rates for their African American counterparts, which have not budged. In ... 537,000 people received dialysis or a kidney transplant. The cost to Medicare was $18.1 billion ... Kidney Failure Rates Deep, Numbers Growing With Older Population	9
	... California Pacific's. Kidney Transplant Team. recently performed a. kidney transplant for an ... awareness events within Fresno's. African American community, numer- ous families had ... Seniors Can Benefit from Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplant	9
	USA MARKS 100TH KIDNEY TRANSPLANT ... "There are many patients in Alabama waiting for kidney transplantation and most of them are African American. ... USA Health System-News Releases	8
	... dominant polycystic kidney disease in Seychelles (Indian ... such data is available in African populations, we investigated ... Although hemodialysis and kidney transplant are effective for long term ... Frequency and impact of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ...	9
	... in the United States are African-American. In South Carolina, African-Americans account for Seventy-two percent of those on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Contact Us \| Site Map \| Privacy ... Gift of Life Trust Fund - Personal Stories	9
	African American reluctance to donate: beliefs and attitudes about organ donation and ... regarding receipt of a cadaver kidney transplant. Am J Kidney Dis 1997;30:749 ñ59. 28. Institute ... Health Insurance and Cardiac Transplantation	9
	In 1988, 23% of the patients on the waiting list were African-Americans vs. 26% in 1994. 61% of the patients receiving kidney transplants in 1994 were ... Join the National Transplant Foundation, Know the Issues!	8
	African Americans have the lowest risk (1.7%). ... when ESWL fails, for kidney transplant patients, or when there ... Kidney Health Council, American Foundation for Urologic Disease www.kidney.org ... Kidney Stones	9
	People who've undergone a kidney transplant have an increased risk of developing ... transplant recipients, particularly among men and African Americans," ... Kidney transplants can increase the risk of melanoma	9
	To be a kidney transplant candidate you should be in good physical condition, no drug or ... A White Muslim woman donating a kidney to an African American Christian in a Jewish hospital. Click here ... Organ donation	9
	Religious View. African Americans & Organ Donation. 1954 First successful kidney transplant performed at Peter Brent Brigham Hospital in Boston. ... Organ Donation	9
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	... school's first African American tenures full professor ... African American woman in the field of transplant surgery. She was recently honored with the National Kidney ... University of Pittsburgh - A World of Possibilities	8
	CANCER studies say family history of cancer suggests known cancer-causing gene mutations and that kidney transplant patients have nearly four times the risk of melanoma ... reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, researchers say ... that Afr ACS :: News from CANCER: Family History Implies Genetic Mutation; Transplant and Cancer Risk	9
	HEALTH FACT SHEETS. TOPICS. A bone marrow transplant is considered the only real "cure" for some 60 different illnesses including forms of leukemia and aplastic anemia. ... HIV/AIDS. Kidney Disease. Lupus ... donors - about 6 percent - are African- A African American Community Health Advisory Commitee	9
	... StrokeSTDsSurgeryThyroid DisordersTransfusionTransplant Surgery OtherTraumaUrinary IncontinenceUrinary ... The four-year African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK ... AHA: Ramipril Most Effective In Reducing Renal Decline Among African-Americans with Kidney Insufficiency	9
	... kidney that will be fatal without dialysis or a renal transplant. The high incidence of strokes is another health concern in the African-American ... African-American women, according ... Better Nutrition Promoting the Health of African Americans \| e Diet Star	40
	... TO INCREASE ORGAN DONATION IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN AND HISPANIC AND COMMUNITIES V. Dent , M. Simon ... Nearly 35% of those in need of a kidney transplant are AA, however the donation rate for this ... DECISION FOR LIFE: AN INTERVENTION TO INCREASE ORGAN DONATION IN THE ...	9
	... He had a kidney transplant 10 years ago after going into ... treated for kidney failure versus 11 of 100,000 whites. The biggest disparity is among African-American men ages ... Jackson metro & state news - The Clarion-Ledger	9
	... health information on Kidney Diseases, Ask an Expert about ... Kidney Transplant Treatments for Kidney Disease Dialysis ( More ) Staying ... African American Health Urinary Disorders Urinary Tract Cancers Home ... Kidney Diseases	9
	... What is transplanted? Kidney transplants are the most ... type of tissue transplant. 7/28/2003 ... a donation are African-American. And 15% are Hispanic ... Microsoft PowerPoint - Minority Donor Statistics.ppt [Read-Only]	9
	The Mid-South Transplant Foundation will attempt to increase African Americans’ willingness to donate by providing television and radio ads on stations with ... Organ Donation > Extramural Grant Program	9
	More than 3500 patients died last year waiting for a kidney transplant, ... that can cause kidney failure are more common in African-Americans and people in ... Organ donations: Minorities: Black patients face far longer waits ....	10
	When compared with other kidney transplant centers in the region, a greater fraction of HUH recipients:. are African American; have hypertension as the ... The Harper University Hospital Organ Transplant Program has ...	8
	... time to start thinking about Dialysis or Kidney Transplant. I felt as ... Irishwoman, the registrar at the lab was African American, my technician was a young Hispanic woman ... Transplant Thoughts	9
	... Bettye received a kidney transplant in March of 2002 after enduring ... is African American. Thirty-five percent awaiting kidney transplants are African American. Zero lives will ... UNC-TV ONLINE: Black Issues Forum:Transcripts: Organ Donation	9
	African-Americans comprise 36% of the kidney transplant waiting list [Table 5.1]. Preliminary data suggest that the percentage of African-American ... US Transplant -- 2004 Annual Report	9
	About 35% of patients awaiting kidney transplants are African American, but the. donation rate for African Americans is disproportionately lower than that ... * *	9
	Comparison by race shows that African Americans are seven times less likely to develop melanoma than other races. Â“Kidney transplant patients, ... ACS :: News from CANCER: Family History Implies Genetic Mutation .....	11
	AFRICAN-AMERICAN DIALYSIS & KIDNEY RECIPIENT LAUNCHES NON-PROFIT TO HELP SAVE LIVES & EDUCATE OTHERS ON COPING WITH DIALYSIS, HOW TO GIVE "THE GIFT OF LIFE" & REMAIN HEALTHY - press release on Press World (press-world.com) ... these things within 6 m AFRICAN AMERICAN DIALYSIS KIDNEY RECIPIENT LAUNCHES NON PROFIT TO HELP SAVE - Press Release	9
	The American Red Cross helps keep people safe every day as well ... 12 months after receiving a Kidney transplant or tissue transplant from ... Group O, and the specific African countries where it is found ... American Red Cross	9
	All heart, liver and kidney transplant patients need red blood cells ... disproportionately affects African-Americans, causes red blood ... Copyright 2000 The American National Red Cross. All Rights ... American Red Cross - Youth- Science Lab	9
	... kidney transplant because ... African-American people," said Bobby Howard, a former NFL running back who retired in 1993 after being diagnosed with kidney failure. He received a transplant ... Boston.com / Your Life / Health & Fitness / Diseases & Treatments / Black organ donations lower nationwide	10
	... cause of kidney failureare a major issue for both the Native American and Hispanic populations ... down by organ. African-Americans comprise 35% of the kidney transplant waiting list ... Healthcare Professionals Gear Up for National Donate Life Month	9
	African Americans and Native Americans develop diabetes, nephropathy, and ESRD at rates higher ... they must undergo either dialysis or a kidney transplant. ... Kidney Disease of Diabetes	8
	... Chair of the Education Committee of the African American Chamber of Commerce and a 32-year veteran ... position to share her experiences with kidney transplant and healthy lifestyle choices. Jill Walker ... Multicultural Integrated Kidney Education Program Board of Directors ...	9
	... include ongoing immunologic injury, African-American ancestry, poor HLA matching, poor blood ... Kidney transplant recipients have a much greater risk of cardiovascular events compared to the ... Section 10 Chapter XI Renal Transplantation	8
	... California Pacific's. Kidney Transplant Team. recently performed a. kidney transplant for an ... awareness events within Fresno's. African American community, numer- ous families had ... Seniors Can Benefit from Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplant	5
	... January that he needed a kidney transplant after. he started feeling tired ... second high-profile African-American in the area to come forward in. recent months with a kidney problem ... Southwest Transplant Alliance	9
	... Median Waiting Time (in Months) to Kidney Transplant By Race ... Do you think the average African American is better off, worse off, or just as well off as the average ... www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/369/trustdisparitylong.ppt	8
	The AFRO-AMERICAN Almanac is an on-line presentation of the African in America. We present a historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. ... behind whites in organ transplant rates African Americans May Face Greater Mo AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - Issues in the News - January 25, 2002	11
	Kidney transplant candidates' views of the transplant allocation system. ... However, many African Americans thought the system was biased against them ... CBDSM - Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine ...	12
	Ellie survived due to a kidney transplant, and out of gratitude Dan later donated his kidney ... of donation and transplantation in the African-American community; · Mike Jones , Los ... Donate Life Rose Parade Float	9
	had kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a. kidney transplant to stay alive. ... 75% of kidney patients in South Carolina are. African American. ... FA CT SHEET	9
	First successful kidney transplant February 14th birthdays 1766 : Thomas Malthus, British philosopher. 1817 : Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist. 1819 : Christopher Sholes, American inventor ... February 14th in History	8
	... in the United States are African-American. In South Carolina, African-Americans account for Seventy-two percent of those on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Contact Us \| Site Map \| Privacy ... Gift of Life Trust Fund - News	16
	One reason kidney transplants are performed so often is that a kidney ... Bessie Coleman Was the First African-American Female Pilot Audio Clip Available ... HEALTH REPORT - Kidney Transplants - 2004-04-21	10
	... Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) November 10, 2005 - " Modern-day ... Health Problems in African-American Women: Infant Deaths (National Women's Health Information Center ... HHS - Daily HealthBeat Tip	9
	... medical risk factors for diabetes in African-American women, who are 50 percent to 80 percent more ... 1997-November 2000, eight (3%) of 265 kidney transplant recipients at a hospital in California ... Kidney Disease Statistics Directory 20FR Com	27
	People who receive a kidney transplant are nearly four times more likely than the ... with age- but significantly lower in women and African-Americans. ... Kidney Transplant Patients Face Higher Skin Cancer Risk	8
	Kidney transplants may be discriminatory. By Julie Ralston, Post staff reporter ... African Americans, women and the poor are significantly less likely to receive kidney transplants than other Americans, according to a new study that examined kidney kidney100698	9
	In fact, nine out of ten African-Americans who undergo organ transplant surgery ... FACT: If you donate an organ -- such as a kidney, for which genetic ... Legacy - Organ Donor & Tissue Registry - The Gift of Life. Pass...	9
	... Patients need dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive ... of Native American, African American, and Mexican American heritage are also at higher risk of developing kidney failure ... Welcome to Medstar.	9
	... HIV-INFECTED LIVER AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS ... 18 kidney, 11 liver): 28 were male, median age was 45 (15 to 64) years; 16 were white, 10 African American, 2 Asian ... AEGiS-12CROI: 1- to 3-Year Outcomes in HIV-infected Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients	11
	... 12 percent of the U.S. population is African-American, but 35 percent of all patients waiting for a kidney transplant are African-American ... Banish the conundrum: Encourage organ donations, say FPs - May 2003 - FP Report	8
	They correctly identified the African-American males' voices approximately 88 percent of the time." posted at 10:52 by Howard Bashman Available online at The Hill : An article reports that "'Nuclear ... How Appealing	9
	... and to provide liver support until a transplant is available. ... American Kidney Patients Calculate the Kt/v Current ... African-Americans at Especially High Risk for This Silent Killer Mineral and ... NephroWorld is the most visited virtual Community and Marketplace for ...	9
	... allocation from the perspective of kidney transplant candidates and recipients. This hearing is ... African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander and Native American ... OPTN: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network	18
	35% of patients awaiting kidney transplants are African American. The African American recruitment program at UNOS uses numbers and hard facts to focus ... SEA Currents Volume 22, Number 2 -- March/April 2004	9
	... another 4,078 people had a working kidney transplant, and an ... on diabetes and kidney disease to over 1,000 high-risk clients, including African American, Hispanics and Native ... Vital Statistics Indicators Kidney Disease Deaths	8
	The comedian required a functional kidney because he suffers from a genetic ... An 'Invasion' Hurricane Hits Burbank · 'African American Lives' Fills in ... Zap2it - TV news - Lopez Gets Kidney Transplant Thanks to Wife	10
	First Name: Last Name: Email: Interests: ... for African Americans ... kidney transplants in a timely manner. Once on the list, they also tend to wait longer for a transplant. Exact causes are unclear. Family Caregiving: African American ... Black Women's Health Imperative: StoryBuilder Eliminating African American Health Disparities: The Facts - Page_...	9
	... that concerns African-Americans inasmuch as they represent 35 percent of those waiting to receive a kidney transplant ... surgeon within the African-American community, educating blacks ... BlackNews.com - Daily Black News, African-American News	9
	How a kidney transplant changed a UNH staff member's life ... "We know, for example, that graft failure rates for African-Americans are substantially higher ... Campus Journal	9
	That HIVAN is a disease of African-Americans is inferred by its presence in only ... one year following a cadaver donor kidney transplant, after five years, ... Cyberounds (R) > Conferences >> Nephrology >> HIV and Kidney Disease	12
	... today at the 6th Annual American Society of Transplant Surgeons State of the ... more than 8 out of 10 African Americans unaware of the ... Patients who have had a kidney transplant face higher melanoma ... Doctor Feed - Doctors and Physicians in Kansas	28
	blue arrow Heart Transplant blue arrow Kidney Transplant ... African Americans with diabetes experience kidney failure about four times more often than ... Health Information Center	11
	... levels since the first trimester in kidney transplant patients receiving CsA compared to tacrolimus ... reported lower lipid levels in African American recipients of renal transplants on tacrolimus ... International Abstracts in Transplantation - May 2000	9
	... need among African-Americans, Latinos, Asians ... American Society of Transplant Surgeons America's Blood Centers Associations of ... National Kidney Foundation National Marrow Donor Program ... National Day Honor	9
	... therapy among the African American Renal Transplant Recipients. Abstract accepted to American ... Integrated Approach of Kidney Transplant Associated Anemia Through Chronic Kidney ... OHSU: Division of Nephrology & Hypertension: Gautham Mogilishetty, M.D.	8
	... that penalizes the Chinese and not the American transplant tourist. What do you think about the ... Survival rates for kidney transplant have increased markedly over the past decade, although these ... Organs For Sale: China's Growing Trade and Ultimate Violation of ...	9
	... Buffalo, NY (October 7, 2002) - Upstate New York Transplant Services, Inc ... rate of African American living related and non-related organ donation. The National Kidney Foundation of ... Press Release, October 7, 2002	9
	"The long-term survival of a kidney transplant requires that the recipient ... "We know, for example, that graft failure rates for African-Americans are ... UNH Study Examines Factors that Impact Long-term Kidney ...	8
	... mother as she grew more seriously ill waiting for a transplant. The split liver has grown to full ... all patients waiting on kidney transplants across the country are African American ... WNEM-TV5 Todays Health: Organ Donation	29
	... The African-American consent rate dropped from 50 percent in 2001 ... of the kidney, heart, lung, pancreas and liver are found more frequently in blacks. Transplant success rates ... Blacks donate organs less often	9
	... African American poet, writer and performer, was diagnosed with kidney disease in 1995 and underwent transplant surgery ... cultural aspects of kidney disease and minority ... Calendar of events	12
	... African-Americans and Latinos nationally comprise about 13 percent each of organ donors ... those needing a kidney transplant, about 36 percent are African-American and 17 percent are ... Dallas Morning News \| News for Dallas, Texas \| Local Columnists	9
	... 25% of all open heart procedures performed on African-American or Hispanic patients in New York State have ... 59% of UHB's kidney transplant recipients are African-American and 23% are ... facilities	11
	... with Post-Transplant Renal Function in African American Renal Transplant Recipients. pp ... Steroid Therapy in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients Monitored by Surveillance ... IngentaConnect Table Of Contents: American Journal of Transplantation	16
	The organ shortage is especially critical among African Americans, who have a proportionally higher need for kidney transplants because they have a high ... 'It's an up-and-down struggle to keep your spirits up'	9
	Of these individuals, approximately half are African American, Hispanic, or Asian. ... Resource Center: Operation: Heart Transplant or How to Transplant a ... NHM Health Focus: Minority Transplant Donors and Recipients	9
	Minorities Hardest Hit by Organ Crisis. Lorraine Steefel, RN, MA. Masthead Date January 22, 2001 ... were: 94 Caucasian, 27 African American, 22 Latino, and 4 Asian ... beth_israel/ transplant_center/index.html. Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Ca Nursing Spectrum- Career Fitness Online	9
	Oregon Donor Program is a non-profit organization committed to saving and enhancing lives through the promotion of organ and tissue donation. ... African American Businesswoman Thrives after Kidney Transplant. July 26, 2005 ... Oregon Donor Program - Be an Organ and Tissue Donor	10
	According to the Lupus Foundation of America, an estimated 300000 to 500000 Americans ... with increased risk of lupus kidney disease in African Americans. ... Up to 500000 Americans will develop lupus-related kidney disease	22
	times as likely to develop kidney failure than. Caucasian Americans. This means one in every. 13 African Americans will develop a disorder of the. kidney that will be fatal without dialysis or a renal. transplant. ... kidney that will be fatal withou 6	8
	... to appeal the denial of a kidney transplant for John Carl, a 53 year old HIV posi ... leading cause of end-stage kidney disease in. all African-American men ... HIV POSITIVE DENVER RESIDENT WINS APPEAL : HMO APPROVES KIDNEY TRANSPLANT	9
	Organ Transplant Statistic, Information on Kidney Transplant, Kidney and Liver ... African-Americans and Hispanics tend to have higher rates of kidney ... Kidney Waiting List - Kidney Transplant Need Exceeds 60000	94
	kidney/pancreas recipient, and her. staff have done a terrific job ... African-Americans who undergo. transplant surgery receive an organ ... Life Goes On Fall 2003	9
	Lucille (not her real name) is African American, poor by US standards, and dependent ... The brokers first suggested a transplant tour to Turkey or Romania, ... LiP \| Feature \| Black Market Organs	9
	... not registered as an organ donor would not be allowed onto the transplant waiting list, ... 1/3 of people on kidney waiting lists are African American, ... sciforums.com - Not An Organ Donor? No Kidney For You!	26
	... allegations of child kidnapping, kidney theft, and rampant commerce ... of transplant surgery that discriminates against the successful pre-screening of African-American, Latino, and ... The Ends of the Body	9
	... list for a transplant. Over XX% of the people waiting for a kidney are African American. Due to matching ... son's organs will go to another African American is very high ... www.bioethics.upenn.edu/prog/transplant/pdf/Troubleshooting.ppt	9
	... AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISKS. POST KIDNEY TRANSPLANT ... kidney transplant recipients. - Age (M age=46.0+12.5 yrs.) - Male (n=34, 54%), Caucasian (n=24, 39%) - African American ... www.nursingworld.org/EMFP/fellows/jcposter.ppt	9
	... American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Vol 34, No 1 (July), 1999 ... methylprednisone pharmacokinetics in African-American and Caucasian renal transplant recipients. Clin Transplant 9:289 ... American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Vol 34, No 1 (July), 1999: pp 1-13	9
	The study has a target enrollment of 150 kidney and 125 liver transplant recipients. ... Fact Sheet on Myths about HIV Vaccine Research in African-American ... HRSA-HAB Volume 8 Issue 4	8
	As success with organ transplants has grown, ethical issues have developed. ... In kidney transplantation, women, African-Americans, and children are among ... HSTE Instructional Guide	9
	Breaking news on health topics for your family, finances, lifestyle, and business provided by applesforhealth.com, a healthy knowledge source. ... kidney transplants for African Americans and the benefit of living donation to minorities. At the Ameri Latest Breaking Health News & Information: Applesforhealth.com	9
	... I was fortunate enough to get lungs, but my donor wasn't African-American. ... Toni Guinyard>> The viability of an organ for transplant decreases with ... Life & Times - Transcript - 07/20/05	9
	... What is transplanted? Kidney transplants are the most ... type of tissue transplant. 7/28/2003 ... a donation are African-American. And 15% are Hispanic ... Microsoft PowerPoint - Minority Donor Statistics.ppt [Read-Only]	5
	... a cadavaric kidney transplant in 1995, but ... transplant research projects, including the optimization of immunosuppressive therapy in African-American patients following kidney ... University of Illinois Medical Center:Chicago Gospel Singer Donates Kidney to Sister	14
	... to be the first known crossmatch. incompatible kidney transplant in the Philadelphia tri-state region ... The study compared 148 living. African American alumni who. graduated from JMC ... Hospital Noise Out Day' Returns April 16	9
	kidney transplants are African. American. • One organ donor can save the. lives of up to eight people. • One tissue donor can enhance ... In The Black Community Investments Are Advanced Directives ...	9
	... of the recipients were African American and 24 percent of all ... the incidence of kidney failure is higher in African Americans than in whites and the transplant survival rate is ... Newswise	13
	When a representative from Southwest Transplant Alliance asked if she would ... "The first time I observed someone else talking to an African-American ... Rebuilding a shattered trust	9
	Each Sunshine Thrift Store operates with the assistance of a local charity. ... tags to identify dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients in case of emergency ... clients about chronic kidney disease and its causes. The African American pop Sunshine Thrift Store - National Kidney Foundation of Michigan	8
	... and the need for dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant to stay alive. ... African American men, and men with a family history of prostate cancer ... The National Kidney Foundation of Illinois - JUST THE FACTS	9
	... of the U.S. population is African American. What percentage of patients awaiting kidney ... a successful kidney transplant if the donor is: a. The same age. b. African American ... www.eurweb.com/printable.cfm?id=15576	10
	A three-year multi-center study of kidney-pancreas transplant recipients has ... with more than 8 out of 10 African Americans unaware of the importance of ... GlobalRPH - Transplants/Organ Donations News	25
	But he began his quest to find out why African Americans weren't donating ... Lack of community awareness about the devastating impact of kidney disease and ... Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program -2 of 2- by ...	23
	... Average age was 59; 68% Caucasian, 27% African-American; 54% male, 46% female; 78% had not completed ... KIDNEY TRANSPLANT - 63% of participants planned on receiving a kidney transplant ... Missouri Kidney Program Newsletter	9
	The transplant gap. For a variety of reasons, blacks must wait longer than ... that can cause kidney failure are more common in African-Americans and people ... TAG - Articles & Features	18
	... include information from and about African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians; ... The Transplant Chronicles. The National Kidney Foundation publishes and ... TransWeb Reference Desk: Newsletters	11
	... Training Faculty. Program for Transplant Policy and Ethics ... on the waiting list for a transplant. Over XX% of the. people waiting for a kidney are African American. Due to ... Troubleshooting	7
	... Carolina. are African-American. Over 700 South Carolinians are. waiting for a kidney transplant. Three out of ... for a kidney are African-American, and South Carolina ranks second in ... Camelot Camelot Camelot Camelot Camelot	6
	... and Wound Healing in Adult Kidney Transplantation." Am J Transplant 2003 Sep; 3(9): 1128 ... of steroid therapy in African American kidney transplant recipients receiving sirolimus and ... Case Western Reserve University	8
	... to be the first known crossmatch. incompatible kidney transplant in the Philadelphia tri-state region ... The study compared 148 living. African American alumni who. graduated from JMC ... Hospital Noise Out Day' Returns April 16	5
	... Educate kidney transplant recipients about the risk of melanoma in addition to non-melanoma skin ... African American transplant recipients had seven times lower odds of melanoma than ... Teaching Brief - MedPage Today	9
	... had specified that his kidney go to "a low-income African-American" because African-Americans have ... director of the kidney and kidney-pancreatic transplant program at the university ... Giving of Yourself, Literally, to People You've Never Met	23
	One of only a few female African-American transplant surgeons in the world, ... the African American Outreach Committee at the National Kidney Foundation of ... Long Island University - 75th Anniversary	9
	... Training Faculty. Program for Transplant Policy and Ethics ... on the waiting list for a transplant. Over XX% of the. people waiting for a kidney are African American. Due to ... Troubleshooting	6
	... -African American unemployment rate the nation's highest- African Americans have suffered ... and need for a transplant - the Kidney & Urology Foundation of America announced ... UnityFirst.com	9
	African Americans are at increased risk for high blood pressure and the resulting kidney problems than Caucasians. African-Americans age 25 to 44 are 20 ... Urinary Tract Conditions: Facts to Know	10
	... Carolina. are African-American. Over 700 South Carolinians are. waiting for a kidney transplant. Three out of ... for a kidney are African-American, and South Carolina ranks second in ... Camelot Camelot Camelot Camelot Camelot	8
	National Campaign Focuses on Hispanics, African Americans ... After four kidney transplant rejections, Jose Quintana of Youngstown , underwent a procedure ... LifeBanc Minority Initiatives	10

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