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Seen that? - Portable dialysis machines on the horizon
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 9, 2009
... Portable dialysis machines on the horizon at Straightfromthedoc Portable dialysis machines have been recently approved by the FDA. Currently, peopl...
Diabetes Awareness With John Ratzenberger and the WRI
in Daily Diabetic, on July 14, 2009
...nd AIDS combined? Four times!! And costs $92 billion every single year in after-care costs such as: dialysis, blindness, amputations, and prosthetics.
To hear from Ratzenberger about his mission to ...
RFID Can Stop Your Heart...
in The Wireless Weblog, on June 25, 2008
...terference from the chips was reaching 41 nearby Medical devices , ranging from pacemakers to dialysis systems. The researchers found 22 'hazardous' incidences of interference. These inc...
Gene for Kidney Failure Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 30, 2008
...nefit to patients suffering from auto-immune diseases such as lupus. This would allow them to avoid dialysis and maintain their quality of life."
The study has been published in nature geneti...
Diabetes-Related Kidney Disease Can Be Fatal
in Daily Diabetic, on December 27, 2007
...r waste products from the blood and excrete them in the urine and that people with ESRD need kidney dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive.
Find more details from Reuters Health .
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Thank You, Bob
in Eagle Par Birdie, on August 7, 2007
...where he and his wife lived for about 10 years after retiring.
But kidney disease has put Bob on a dialysis machine three times a week for five hours at a time. He's frail and skinny as a rail.
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FDA Approved Carnitor® SF (Levocarnitine) Sugar-Free Oral Solution for Carnitine Deficiency
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 25, 2007
...g to carnitine deficiency may include inborn errors of metabolism, fanconi syndrome, chronic renal dialysis, carnitine-deficient diet, extreme prematurity, malabsorption, HIV infection or antiretrovir...
Reality TV ethics: guess what? I'm not really dying.
in Sox First, on June 3, 2007
...if you have kidney failure you will eventually die. The only thing that can temporarily save you is dialysis or a kidney donation. To actually play games with people's hopes is appalling,''...
Virus Sponge Filters Viruses from the Blood
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 14, 2007
...d a "virus sponge" that could filter a patient's blood in a process similar to kidney dialysis, a technology which may be used to remove virus from a patient's body, or to reduce glu...
Medical Outsourcing Facts
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 31, 2007
...ervices Commentary , the top 10 patient care services which are outsourced includes the following:
Dialysis - 31%
Sleep Disorders - 24%
Diagnostic Imaging - 23%
Laboratory Services - 20%
Physical The...
Pork Chops in Honey-Mustard Spice Sauce
in Do you like to cook?, on January 3, 2007
...as? Check these out:
A very healthy low-sodium, low pottasium alternative from Eating Well on Dialysis
Vietnamese Bun Thit Nuong
One from Chef Keith Snow -- for breaded pork chops -- including a...
New York Dialysis Patients Receive 'Worst' Care
in Daily Diabetic, on December 28, 2006
... According to recent statistics, patients undergoing dialysis in New York--most of them diabetics-- receive some of the worst care in the country. It's a truly sobering revelation.
At New Yor...
Kidney Failure Rates Rise With Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on November 16, 2006
... As cases of Type 2 diabetes increase , so do the instances of kidney failure. People are entering dialysis at younger ages than ever before, and medical professionals look to the rising rates of Typ...
New CDC Guideline Urges Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities to Increase Efforts in Reducing Drug-Resistant Infections
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 20, 2006
... to as MRSA, are a growing problem in hospitals and healthcare facilities such as nursing homes and dialysis centers. In a few cases, bacteria become so resistant that no available antibiotics are eff...
RIAA Bags a Grandmother on Dialysis
in Digital Music - The Future, on August 11, 2006
...y defendants ." Iola Scruse (pictured here) is a 66-year-old grandmother on Social Security an dialysis. Kathy Hartness is another grandmother. She says she stopped a year ago when she heard is w...
RIAA Bags a Grandmother on Dialysis
in P2P File Sharing, on August 11, 2006
...y defendants ." Iola Scruse (pictured here) is a 66-year-old grandmother on Social Security an dialysis. Kathy Hartness is another grandmother. She says she stopped a year ago when she heard is w...
The Price of Being a Living Kidney Donor
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 1, 2006
...considered in several countries.
The results of the review appear in the July issue of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation .
Source: EurekAlert ...
Diabetics Cautioned: Protect Your Kidneys
in Daily Diabetic, on July 31, 2006
Diabetics are especially at risk for potentially deadly kidney failure. Often, this condition seems to go hand-in-hand with hypertension, another health condition often experienced by diabetics.
This site offers a primer on protecting your kidneys, and the things you need to look out for.
I...
Doctors Fight Diabetes in the Delta
in Daily Diabetic, on June 30, 2006
...tical projections based on the current trend, Bouldin said the number of diabetics on kidney dialysis in 2000 "will double by 2010."
As we've discussed on this site before, diab...
Renal Soultions, Inc.'s Allient® Sorbent Hemodialysis System, Granted 510(k) Clearance by the USFDA for Chronic and Acute Hemodialysis
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 29, 2006
...recently announced that the USFDA recently granted 510(k) clearance of the Allient® Sorbent hemodialysis System , including the SORB™ series and HISORB™ series cartridges, for chronic and acut...
Never give up
in Bizinformer, on May 22, 2006
...ness industry. Spent 5 years in the Navy before developing kidney disease and eventually going on dialysis . Through taking Noni Juice, I was able to gain kidney fuction again, and now am an adv...
How to find the best business
in Bizinformer, on May 20, 2006
...ness industry. Spent 5 years in the Navy before developing kidney disease and eventually going on dialysis . Through taking Noni Juice, I was able to gain kidney fuction again, and now am an adv...
Protein Biomarkers Predict Status of Kidney Transplants in Patients
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 27, 2006
... NGAL and IL-18 in kidney transplant patients will determine whether these patients will require dialysis within the first week of transplant surgery. A study citing evidence in favor of this findi...
The Gift of Love
in Daily Diabetic, on April 18, 2006
...g a kidney from a living donor are excellent. Shockingly, 50% of people who are told they will need dialysis or a transplant--unfortunately common among diabetics--never come back for treatment. Wheth...
Amgen Seeks Banning of Roche's Anemia Drug, Cera
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 12, 2006
...than Epogen, which Amgen sells in the United States as a treatment for anemia in patients on kidney dialysis.
According to a Reuters article , Roche's Cera has not yet been approved for sale in...
Synthetic Heparin From Engineered Enzymes
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 9, 2006
...is a commonly used blood anticoagulant used during medical procedures and treatments such as kidney dialysis, heart bypass surgery, stent implantation, indwelling catheters, knee and hip replacements,...
Legacy
in Daily Diabetic, on January 31, 2006
...st every night. My eleven-year-old cousin, Laura, spent a rainy Saturday afternoon decorating her dialysis machine with pink ribbons and Hello Kitty stickers to make it pretty. And my wonderful...
Acologix Secures $24.3M in Series C Financing Round
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 22, 2005
...ion.
Most of the funds will be used to put the company's drug candidate for uremic pruritus in dialysis patients into Phase III clinical trials. Pruritus refers to an unpleasant cutaneous sensati...
Blood Vessels Grown From Skin
in Philoneist, on November 16, 2005
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In an unprecedented proceedure, two kidney dialysis patients have recieved blood vessels grown from their own skin. Having placed a patch of each patient's epidermal tissue in a labora...
Life needing an organ transplant
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 22, 2005
...w what she would have done if she hadn't had the transplant.' ("'I'm tied to a dialysis machine'", BBC News, Aug.21 )...
Straightfromthedoc mentioned in Forbes
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 26, 2005
...as the possibility of a generic version of the asthma drug Allegra or the feasibility of a portable dialysis machine in the near future. You'll find discussion about recent medical studies like th...
Portable dialysis machines on the horizon
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 11, 2005
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Portable dialysis machines have been recently approved by the FDA. Currently, people have to go to dialysis centers several times per week. If at-home dialysis takes off, many lives of those with ...