Precarity prevented or reinforced? Migrants' right to change employers in the recast of the EU Single Permit Directive.

Labor migration policies within the European Union and its Member States typically address two conflictive labor market policy goals. They aim to attract and retain foreign workers in a situation of labor shortage, while at the same time protecting the national workforce from additional labor market competition. The balancing of these two goals is commonly resolved in favor of nationals and with fewer rights for migrant workers.

High urine volume and low urine osmolality are risk factors for faster progression of renal disease.

Background: Increased fluid intake slows renal disease progression in animal models. The relevance of these findings to human renal disease is not clear, although increased fluid intake often is recommended to patients with chronic renal insufficiency. This study tested the hypothesis that urine volume, urine osmolality (Uosm), or both are significantly associated with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decline in patients with chronic renal insufficiency.

Renoprotection: one or many therapies?

Background: Renal disease that progresses to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) imposes a great burden on the affected individual and on society, which mainly bears the cost of ESRD (currently more than $10 billion to treat about 333,000 patients annually in the U.S.).

Recurrent type I membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in a renal allograft: successful treatment with plasmapheresis.

Recurrent disease is increasingly recognized as a cause of renal allograft dysfunction and failure. We describe a patient with type I membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis not associated with hepatitis C. The glomerular disease recurred in the renal allograft within 1 month of transplantation, leading to acute allograft dysfunction and nephrotic syndrome.