Sentences with phrase «kidney dialysis»

UnitedHealth has struck a $ 4.9 billion deal to acquire the DaVita Medical unit of kidney dialysis firm DaVita in an all - cash transaction.

Scientists report today that artificial blood vessels made using a person's own skin cells work well in patients receiving kidney dialysis.

DaVita, the operator of kidney dialysis centers, is in a $ 4.9 billion deal to sell its clinics division to UnitedHealth.

In the current study, McAllister's team implanted them into 10 kidney dialysis patients in Argentina and Poland, all of whom had suffered previous graft failures.

Dean Kamen, inventor of the world's first portable kidney dialysis machine, the world's first portable drug - infusion pump, the Segway and the Slingshot machine that can turn anything wet into clean drinking water exhibits this belief, too.

UnitedHealth strikes a $ 4.9 billion deal to acquire the DaVita Medical Group unit from kidney dialysis firm DaVita in an all - cash transaction.

Some companies, including software developer Citrix Systems Inc and kidney dialysis company DaVita Inc, say they avoid EPS in pay calculations because it is too vulnerable to manipulation.

After reviewing various indicators, researchers at Stanford's School of Medicine and School of Business, and Wharton's School of Management reported that American society's willingness to support substantial public expenditures to extend individual lives through kidney dialysis treatment suggests that in the United States, the monetary value of one «quality adjusted year of life» (QALF) was $ 129,090 in the year 2008.

In addition to his practice in individual and group psychotherapy he has served as a high school consultant for over 24 years, and also worked for 25 years as a consultant to several kidney dialysis clinics.

It operates businesses in areas ranging from kidney dialysis and drug manufacturing to hospital management.

Researchers learned that humans and dogs have similar reactions to fermentable fiber and have incorporated this approach into a liquid product developed for humans who require kidney dialysis.

Frieden noted that Duncan had respiratory intubation and kidney dialysis as «a desperate measure to try to save his life,» which he suggested may have been linked to the transmission.

PATIENTS who undergo kidney dialysis at some French clinics risk contracting hepatitis C from contaminated dialysis machines, warns a report from the Inspector General of Social Affairs.

DaVita runs kidney dialysis centers.

Taken together, the «freshwater salinization syndrome» researchers describe today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could be an issue for people with high blood pressure that require a low - sodium diet and patients who need kidney dialysis.

Blood vessels grown from a person's own cells may soon help kidney dialysis patients.

About 300,000 people a year in the United States receive regular kidney dialysis, which removes and filters a patient's blood before returning it.

Next Page: Three ways to prevent kidney failure [pagebreak] Ian de Boer, MD, helped one of his diabetes patients avoid kidney dialysis.

Plasma PLP concentrations are also low in patients receiving maintenance kidney dialysis or intermittent peritoneal dialysis, as well as those who have undergone a kidney transplant, perhaps due to increased metabolic clearance of PLP.

Like the iPad was used to let a young patient know a bit about kidneys in the the pediatric kidney dialysis unit.

If money is no object, a few specialty veterinary hospitals now offer kidney dialysis for cats.

If dog kidney failure has already started, treatment is still possible with more aggressive approaches such as canine kidney dialysis.

(ref) In many European and Asian locations, where kidney dialysis and kidney transplants are less available, low protein diets, supplemented with ketoacids, are considered an accepted way to maintain CKD patients and perhaps slow the progress of their kidney failure.

(D. Mass., MDL No. 2428), which involves sudden, fatal heart attacks caused by drugs used to neutralize the buildup of acid in the body during kidney dialysis.

When it comes time to finding life insurance coverage for someone who is currently receiving kidney dialysis what we're going to need to do is look at what options are available that aren't going to ask any medical questions or require the applicant to take any kind of medical exam.

Now there are a small bunch of them are unemployed because of medical condition such as frequent kidney dialysis treatment, past injury, bad hearing in one ear, etc..

I am 6» 180 lbs currently on kidney dialysis, thin build looking for fun.

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.

He ended up with heat stroke, kidney failure and pulmonary edema and ultimately required kidney dialysis.

Many of our staff's pets have had to undergo these same procedures (and costs) including kidney dialysis, chemotherapy, and orthopedic surgery to name just a few.

UnitedHealth struck a $ 4.9 billion deal on Wednesday to acquire the DaVita Medical Group unit of kidney dialysis firm DaVita in an all - cash transaction.

Do you currently receive kidney dialysis or require oxygen use or have you received or been told that you need an organ transplant or have you been diagnosed as having a terminal illness?

FMC had bought Sound Inpatient to build up a so - called care coordination business to expand into other types of therapy that kidney dialysis patients typically need.

Rather, that blunt declaration was uttered in 1994 in Spokane, by a doctor to the parents of Ryan Nguyen, who — born at just twenty - three - weeks gestation — was on kidney dialysis and struggling for his life.

In this case, of course, a very old woman might receive the treatment — say, kidney dialysis — that could otherwise have saved a young child.

The decade witnessed the advent of kidney dialysis, organ transplantation, the birth - control pill, intensive - care units, the artificial respirator, prenatal diagnosis and the first glimmering of the genetic revolution.

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I am on kidney dialysis and am only allowed certain kinds of cereal.

To mimic liver function, patients» blood plasma is passed across the plates of cells, in a process akin to kidney dialysis.

For example, he received kidney dialysis — in which blood is filtered out of the body for cleaning by a machine — as well as respiratory intubation — in which a breathing apparatus is placed down the throat while a separate suction device removes saliva and other liquids.

The patient is on a ventilator to support his breathing and is receiving kidney dialysis.

Kidney dialysis is often used as a treatment, but the best long - term solution is transplant, usually from a recently - deceased donor.