Provides information, referrals and financial assistance to kidney patients.

The kidney patients weren't any unhappier than the healthy people.

Only one of the kidney patients died, succumbing to infection, he said.

Nearly one million Americans, including 500,000 kidney patients, receive the drugs every year.

The panel is one of several panels sponsored by the foundation that make recommendations about how to improve treatment for kidney patients.

It continues to maintain a thriving forum for kidney patients within the site.

Some kidney patients may need to control their cholesterol through diet or both diet and medicine.

Sales of Epogen, which helps kidney patients produce red blood cells, rose 23 percent, to $230 million.

The drug is used to oxygenate the blood of kidney patients who develop anemia.

Doctors say it will improve the quality of life for kidney patients.