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The Mysterious Kidney Illness Rising Among Sri Lankan Farmers

The Mysterious Kidney Illness Rising Among Sri Lankan Farmers

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Are pesticides in drinking water to blame for kidney disease among young farmers?

Casualties of COVID: Insulin and Dialysis

Casualties of COVID: Insulin and Dialysis 

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How the pandemic has been life-threatening to people living with diabetes and chronic kidney disease

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

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Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira