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Medical resident and alumna Caitlyn Vlasschaert named STAT Wunderkind | Faculty of Health Sciences
A Queen’s University alumna and current medical resident finds herself in rare company. Caitlyn Vlasschaert, an Internal Medicine resident in...
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Woman with stage 4 kidney disease must plan for her future
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Researchers identify signaling mechanism that damages cells in diabetic kidney disease
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Nephrologists Urge Active Search for Chronic Kidney Disease
BERLIN — In Germany, more than 10 million people have chronic kidney disease (CKD), a severe and irreversible condition that...
Her little sister needed a kidney. The donation let them both live their dreams
As children, sisters Amaris and Dominique Elston were inseparable. Their parents remember the two of them sharing everything and always...
Representation of multimorbidity and frailty in the development and validation of kidney failure prognostic prediction models: a systematic review | BMC Medicine
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