Posts by: Daniela Semedo, PhD

Daniela Semedo, PhD

Daniela holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, a MSc in Health Psychology and a BSc in Clinical Psychology. Her work has been focused on vulnerability to psychopathology and early identification and intervention in psychosis.

August 25, 2015August 25, 2015

Low Rate of Dialysis Facility Referral for Kidney Transplantation Evaluation

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Results from a recent study published in the journal JAMA showed that in the state of Georgia only a limited portion of patients treated with dialysis were referred for kidney ... Read more

August 24, 2015August 24, 2015

Red Blood Cell Distribution Width In Gout Patients May Indicate Chronic Kidney Disease

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Results from a recent study presented during the European League Against Rheumatism Annual European Congress of Rheumatology showed that measuring red blood cell distribution width in patients with gout during ... Read more

August 14, 2015August 14, 2015

More Than Half US Adults Likely to Develop CKD, According to Study

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Awareness of chronic kidney disease, defined by kidney damage or reduced glomerular filtration rate, remains low in the United States, and few estimates of its future burden exist. To address ... Read more

August 12, 2015August 12, 2015

Southern-Style Diet Increases Risk For Heart And Chronic Kidney Disease

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In a recent study published in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal, a team of researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that regular consumption of the “Southern-style” diet ... Read more

July 21, 2015July 21, 2015

Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease More Prone to Develop Gout

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In a recent study published in the journal BMC Open, a team of researchers found that patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are more prone to develop gout later in ... Read more

July 6, 2015July 6, 2015

Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Benefit From The Use of Electronic Health Records

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In a recent study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), researchers were able to identify strategies to use electronic health records (EHRs), thus improving care for patients ... Read more

April 24, 2015April 24, 2015

Researchers Reduce Mutated Mitochondrial Genomes Implicated in Mitochondrial Diseases

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Results from a recent study published in the journal Cell provide a new potential therapeutic avenue for preventing the transgenerational transmission of human mitochondrial diseases caused by mutations in mtDNA, ... Read more

April 23, 2015April 23, 2015

CHOP Researchers Restore Cellular Energy Signals, Offering Possibility of Treating Mitochondrial Diseases

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Mitochondrial disorders are complex conditions for which few treatments are available. Now, using microscopic worms, researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), are researching if existing human drugs aimed at improving metabolism ... Read more

March 12, 2015March 16, 2015

Case Report Explores Mitochondrial Myopathy with Rapidly Progressive Adult-onset Scoliosis

Mitochondrial Myopathy News, News

In a recent article published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications, a team of researchers from the University of California San Francisco reported a case of a patient with a rapid progressive ... Read more

February 27, 2015February 27, 2015

University of Helsinki Researchers Discover Vitamin B3 Form that is Effective in Attenuating Mitochondrial Myopathy Progression

Mitochondrial Myopathy News, News

Researchers from the University of Helsinki recently found that a vitamin B3 form might be effective in attenuating the progression of mitochondrial myopathy. The study is published in the journal ... Read more

February 23, 2015February 23, 2015

Individual Case Report Highlights Rare Acute Kidney Injury Leading To Mitochondrial Myopathy

Mitochondrial Myopathy News, News

A recent case report of a patient with acute kidney injury who was later diagnosed with mitochondrial myopathy, titled “Recurrent episodic acute kidney injury as presenting manifestation of mitochondrial myopathy,” ... Read more

February 19, 2015

Stealth BioTherapeutics Initiates Clinical Study of Bendavia for the Treatment of Mitochondrial Myopathy

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Stealth BioTherapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for rare, mitochondria-related diseases, recently announced the initiation of a new clinical study of Bendavia for the treatment of Mitochondrial Myopathy (MM). Mitochondrial Myopathy (MM) ... Read more