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The Renal Association established the UK Renal Registry (UKRR) in 1995. The UKRR team manage data collection, analysis and reporting on approximately 8,000 new patients, 67,000 existing patients on RRT and on about 500,000 patients with an acute kidney injury each year. Data collated from renal centres and hospital laboratories is used to ...
Richard Henry Reeve White (6 November 1926 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 10 December 2020) was a paediatric nephrologist, [a] [2] emeritus Professor of Paediatric Nephrology from the University of Birmingham [3] [4] [5] morphologist and archivist for British Association for Paediatric Nephrology.
He also worked on kidney transplantation, and wrote on the history of nephrology. [2] He was president of the European Society of Paediatric Nephrology from 1975 to 1998, [ 3 ] the European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA/EDTA) from 1984 to 1987, [ 4 ] the UK Renal Association from 1992 to 1995, [ 5 ] and ...
Nephrology (from Ancient Greek nephros 'kidney' and -logy 'the study of') is a specialty for both adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease, from diet and medication to renal ...
The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) is an organization concerned with kidney health, founded in 1960. In 1992 the society formed a task force to provide emergency kidney dialysis services in areas struck by disasters (usually earthquakes ), where numerous victims may develop acute kidney injury due to crush syndrome . [ 1 ]
Nature Reviews Nephrology is a monthly peer-reviewed review journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established as Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology in 2005, but change name in 2009. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The editor-in-chief is Susan Allison.
Ashish Kothari has also worked as members of several Government of India committees, including the Environmental Appraisal Committee on River Valley Projects and committees to draft design the National Wildlife Action Plan and the Biological Diversity Act. [4] In 2012, he published Churning The Earth: The Making of Global India with Aseem ...
NHS Blood and Transplant is an executive special health authority of the United Kingdom's Department of Health and Social Care.It was established on 1 October 2005 to take over the responsibilities of two separate NHS agencies: UK Transplant (now renamed Organ Donation and Transplantation), founded by Dr. Geoffrey Tovey in 1972, [3] and the National Blood Service [4] (now renamed Blood Donation).