Sentences with phrase «dialysis patients by»

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The worst performer in Buffett's portfolio was DaVita (dva), the health care dialysis company that treats patients with diabetes and whose stock has been punished by uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

The company's products are used by hospitals, kidney dialysis centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, doctor's offices and by patients at home under physician supervision.

Fewer deaths were reported among dialysis and kidney transplant patients in 2013, dropping by 28 percent and 40 percent, respectively, since 1996.

Doctors treat this by connecting patients to dialysis machines that act as artificial kidneys.

The answers, I learned, lay in the grinding poverty and entrenched corruption of India, the desperation of patients on dialysis, and the transnational nature of the black market transplant business — which, though dominated by the kidney exchange, includes livers and hearts as well.

Michelle Hladunewich, MD (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, in Toronto) and her colleagues assessed the effects of such intensive dialysis on pregnancy outcomes by comparing patients from Toronto with that from the United States.

Yet, a new study conducted by Mayo Clinic and the University of Michigan shows that only one - third of patients who ultimately receive a living donor kidney transplant receive it pre-emptively (i.e., before starting dialysis).

Researchers in Taiwan examined the association between ACEI / ARB use and the risk of long - term dialysis and death in a nationwide group of 28,497 patients in a study by Ta - Wei Hsu, M.D., of the National Yang - Ming University Hospital, and colleagues.

Investigators led by Suma Prakash, MD, FRCPC, MSc (Case Western Reserve University) wondered whether a model called the «behavioral stage of change» model, which was originally used to help people quit smoking, might help patients with chronic kidney disease take action and make decisions about their dialysis options.

ARANESP ® is used to treat anemia, a deficiency in the number of red blood cells, caused by chronic kidney failure in patients both on dialysis and not on dialysis.

Starting out in a dialysis clinic, Mindy first gained experience educating patients suffering from kidney failure by helping them to improve their dietary planning.

Significant settlement for the estate of a patient injured by a dialysis center that improperly diluted an ingredient necessary to cleanse his blood.

I've been a dialysis patient for the past 6 years due to service connection and I am rated 100 % disabled by the VA..

If you are a kidney patient and going for regular dialysis process, the costs of the same will be taken care of by your insurance providers.

As per the figures presented by Mr Jaitley, India sees almost 2.2 lakh new patients of End - Stage Renal Disease annually, which leads to an additional demand for around 3.4 crore dialysis sessions.

My fiance is 53 diabetic insulin, dialysis patient, smoker, and lives home, not sure of his live span left, maybe a year or 2or3, but I need some type of final expense or life insurance for him for I would like to have the proper funeral - burial, for him but there isn't much finance, him SSDI, and I work and support our 3 kids, so what would be the best choice for me, being able to afford something that would pay for this and maybe some left to get (US) his family by, without breaking the bank.

Dialysis Patient Care Technicians assist patients with advanced kidney disease by operating and disinfecting dialysis equipment and providing basDialysis Patient Care Technicians assist patients with advanced kidney disease by operating and disinfecting dialysis equipment and providing basdialysis equipment and providing basic care.

Daily activities performed by a Dialysis Tech include assembling machines, preparing equipment for use, positioning patients on the lounge chair, monitoring vital signs, explaining the procedure to patients, adhering to safety standards, and observing any adverse reaction.