Sentences with phrase «kidney dialysis machine»

She plays «Maya,» a lone wolf CIA agent who sticks to her conviction that bin Laden is not in a cave in Afghanistan, hunched over a kidney dialysis machine, but is likely living in relatively open sight.

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.

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

If the technique proves successful, it might also be possible to treat kidney tumours outside the body using intensive chemotherapy, while the patient survives on a dialysis machine.

Ip thinks his research could help humans with kidney failure, either by creating a more efficient dialysis machine or through gene therapy to enable humans to mimic the turtle and eliminate urea via the mouth.

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.

Although 17,000 people receive kidneys in the US each year, more than 400,000 are on the waiting list and rely on dialysis machines, so the shortage of available organs remains acute.

Already, researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco, are collaborating on the construction of an implantable bio-artificial kidney that would contain microscopic filters and living kidney cells in a coffee - cup - size device that would work like a living dialysis machine inside the body — and provide most of the benefits of a kidney transplant.

Dialysis machines are like artificial kidneys, performing the same tasks that your kidneys no longer can.

One this that can be said about the kidneys, is that these are probably the same kind as in Metal Gear Solid 4, the ones that need dialysis with a machine and synthetic white blood (notice the white veins).

Due to the cat's low blood volume, human - style dialysis (fluid therapy) on a kidney machine is not possible.

We have been on the national trial team for breast implant litigation, for the cell phone litigation, as well as handling individual actions involving kidney - dialysis machines and mercury amalgam dental fillings, heart valve implants, uterine devices, geothermal generating equipment and electrical transformers; printing presses; and, highway graders and snowboards.