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		<title>Regeneration of Podocyte Cells Offers Hope for Kidney Patients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Stanford School of Medicine have discovered that the podocyte cells that make up the kidney filter membrane may be able to regenerate during normal kidney function. Scientists have long believed that these cells, which suffer damage in more than 90 percent of chronic kidney diseases, such as FSGS and diabetic nephropathy, could not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2012/02/regeneration-of-podocyte-cells-offers-hope-for-kidney-patients/</link>
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		<title>Scientists Discover Key to Podocyte Injury and Progressive Kidney Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have discovered an important molecular mechanism behind worsening kidney disease. In a disease such as FSGS, for example, the kidney filter membrane (also known as the slit diaphragm) is damaged, allowing proteins to leak into the urine. The initial damage causes further [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2012/01/scientists-discover-key-to-podocyte-injury-and-progressive-kidney-disease/</link>
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		<title>Video: Mary Wu and Valen Cover Dedicate Roses on Donate Life Float</title>
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		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2012/01/video-mary-wu-and-valen-cover-dedicate-roses-on-donate-life-float/</link>
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		<title>Can You Name the Famous People Who Have Died of Kidney Disease?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of our favorite actors, composers, writers, musicians, and athletes have died from kidney disease—many of them, far too soon. Mozart&#8217;s death is a fascinating medical mystery, to be explored in a future blog post. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, died 1791 of nephrotic syndrome (or rheumatic fever) Emily Dickinson, poet, died 1886 of Bright&#8217;s disease [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2011/12/can-you-name-the-famous-people-who-have-died-of-kidney-disease/</link>
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		<title>Video: Mary Wu on the Rose Parade and the Importance of Organ Donation</title>
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		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2011/12/video-mary-wu-on-the-rose-parade-and-the-importance-of-organ-donation/</link>
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		<title>Be Inspired by Confessions of a Kidney Transplant Recipient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have kidney disease or care about someone who does, visit organ donation/kidney research advocate Mary Wu&#8217;s blog, Confessions of a Kidney Transplant Recipient, and be inspired.  In chapters from her unpublished biography, Mary chronicles her battle with kidney disease from childhood to the present day. In the midst of preparing for her trip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2011/12/be-inspired-by-confessions-of-a-kidney-transplant-recipient/</link>
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		<title>Guest Blogger Mary Wu&#8217;s Countdown to the 2012 Rose Parade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Countdown Grab the calendar. Take out the permanent marker. Let us get ready for “The Countdown.” Yes, you read it right. “The Countdown” to the groundbreaking and extraordinary Rose Bowl Parade held on January 2, 2012 in Pasadena, California has officially begun. **CHEERING** Approximately 24 days from today, The Rose Bowl Parade Donate Life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2011/12/guest-blogger-mary-wus-countdown-to-the-rose-parade/</link>
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		<title>The Salt Reduction Controversy &amp; the UN Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UN summit on non-communicable diseases taking place 17 days from now in New York may not be on every American&#8217;s radar, but it should be. The ambitious meeting aims to tackle the alarming rise of chronic diseases affecting the world&#8217;s population, particularly in developing nations &#8211; cancer, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Everyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2011/09/salt-reduction-controversy-un-summit-on-non-communicable-diseases/</link>
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		<title>Top News on Metabolic Syndrome for the Week of 8/15/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Metabolic syndrome describes a set of symptoms that increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Those risk factors are: high blood pressure obesity, particularly extra weight around the waist insulin resistance low good cholesterol higher levels of triglycerides Patients are diagnosed with metabolic syndrome when they have 3 or more of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2011/08/top-news-on-metabolic-syndrome-for-the-week-of-81511/</link>
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		<title>Potential Kidney Cancer Therapy Starves Cancer Cells of Glucose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a drug called STF-31 that starves and kills some kidney cancer cells by cutting off their energy supply of glucose. STF-31 works by binding to a particular glucose transporter. Testing in mice inhibited glucose transport by about half and resulted in slowed tumor growth with limited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ukrocharity.org/2011/08/potential-kidney-cancer-therapy-starves-cancer-cells-of-glucose/</link>
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