Sentences with phrase «of kidney care»

About Blog PREPARE NOW is a study that puts patients at the center of kidney care.

«We also expect to pursue other investments in health - care services outside of kidney care,» Thiry said.

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He is an internationally renowned expert in the field of acute care and especially acute kidney injury, and is the author of over 100 peer - reviewed publications.

Last week, Reuters reported that kidney care provider DaVita Inc was exploring a potential sale of its own physician network business, DaVita Medical Group, for up to $ 4 billion.

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.

Vertically integrated provider of value - based Kidney Care solutions for Health Systems and Payers delivering improved patient outcomes at reduced costs.

DaVita said it plans to focus on its kidney care business and use the proceeds of the sale for «significant stock repurchases» following the close of the transaction.

As I lay in intensive care crying tears of blood... literally, my heart broken and remaining broken to this day as I slowly die with kidneys failing.

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.

After my son was born, one of my cat's developed kidney failure, and even though we were busier and strapped for cash, we did what we needed to do to take care of her, including lots of expensive medications and daily saline infusions.

A teenage family member was hospitalized in the intensive care unit because of kidney failure.

The Division of Pediatric Nephrology at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston is made up of a team of specialists that provide care for the range of cystic kidney diseases.

The specialists in the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at Floating Hospital for Children work with our colleagues in Newborn Medicine to provide care for any kidney - related issues that may arise in preemies.

It can be caused by several things such as reduced saliva production from hormonal changes, increased kidney activity because of increased blood flow, causing frequent urination and dry mouth, or gestational diabetes (which your doctor should check for as a part of your normal prenatal care).

In a communiqué issued at the end of meeting, the State Council of Health called on the government the state kidney Care Centre should be strengthened to be a resource and transplant centre.

Joining us this afternoon for Medical Monday to discuss renal and kidney care are Doctors Soo Lee and Hani Shahata of Nathan Littauer Hospital.

«New Yorkers dealing with kidney failure and struggling with day - to - day life should be informed of their Medicare eligibility, which could reduce their out - of - pocket expenses and may provide them with more options for care.»

The villagers are so poor that many have sold one of their kidneys for cash only to end up receiving less money than they were promised, as well as woefully inadequate follow - up care.

«Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in the United States, and patients with the diagnosis of sepsis have a minimum of a 30 percent chance of dying of their disease; if their vital organ systems — brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — are affected, they have a 70 percent chance of dying.

The UC research team looked at 3,679 individuals with Type 2 diabetes from a de-identified cohort of patients at the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center and who were followed for a 10 - year period, explains Charuhas Thakar, MD, professor and director of the UC Division of Nephrology, Kidney CARE Program.

The past century's great advances in medical diagnosis and treatment — including kidney dialysis, artificial body parts such as lenses and joints, magnetic resonance imaging, and genetic testing — could have happened only with crucial contributions from physical scientists and engineers, who will also be needed for the next generation of health care miracles.

Our experience in performing kidney transplants from living donors ensures the highest level of care and better outcomes for our patients — both kidney donors and recipients.»

In the U.S. alone, therapy for chronic kidney disease is likely to exceed $ 48 billion per year, and the end - stage kidney disease program consumes 6.7 percent of the total Medicare budget to care for less than 1 percent of the covered population.

«First, in clinical practice, it could be used to prioritize care to those patients most at risk of losing their kidney function.»

Richard J. McManus, F.R.C.G.P., of the University of Oxford, and colleagues randomly assigned 552 patients with hypertension and a history of stroke, coronary heart disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease to self - monitoring of blood pressure combined with an individualized self - titration algorithm or a control group (patients received usual care consisting of seeing their health care clinician for routine blood pressure measurement and adjustment of medication if necessary).

Under terms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), health insurance companies can no longer refuse to provide health coverage to living kidney donors or charge them a higher rate.

«By looking at the genes of the children who participated in TEDDY, we can now identify who among them is at highest risk for celiac disease, and their parents and health care providers can monitor these children to detect the disease early,» said Beena Akolkar, Ph.D., project scientist for TEDDY at the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Charuhas Thakar, M.D., professor and director of the Division of Nephrology, Kidney CARE Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

The kidney trade has its origins not in the underworld but in the bright light of medical advancement and the globalization of health care.

They found that patients from this group who required admission to intensive or critical care units after surgery were more likely to have a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, or suffering blood loss of more than 1,000 milliliters during surgery or requiring vasopressors (medications that raise low blood pressure) during surgery.

«Development of noninvasive tests to detect immune activation before kidney damage occurs would help guide the care of kidney transplant recipients,» said NIAID Transplantation Branch Chief Nancy Bridges, M.D., a co-author of the paper.

Intensive dialysis treatments in pregnant women with kidney failure lead to a higher proportion of live births than standard dialysis care, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

It guides the care of patients with common symptoms such as skin rashes and arthritis as well as those with less common but potentially more serious problems like kidney disease.

Similarly, the team says, those with traumatic brain injuries, cancer, end - stage kidney failure, complicated diabetes, heart disease, developmental disabilities and cerebral palsy need better coordination of their care across health care settings.

Each year, an estimated 5 - 7 percent of patients admitted to hospitals in the U.S. and 30 - 50 percent of patients in critical or intensive care settings, are diagnosed with acute kidney injury (AKI).

The use of electronic alerts by hospitals treating patients with acute kidney injury may increase interventions without improving care, a study by Yale researchers found.

Should the results of this study be repeated in the larger Phase III trial, it would lead to a new standard of care for kidney cancer patients, said Dr. Hammers, formerly of Johns Hopkins medical system, who holds the Eugene P. Frenkel, M.D. Scholar in Clinical Medicine at UT Southwestern.

Beyond the obvious benefits of improved survival and quality of life for transplant patients, each living kidney donation is estimated to result in a net health care savings of $ 100,000.

«Combo immunotherapy may herald new standard of care for kidney cancer.»

Providing comprehensive, state of the art transplant care to a vulnerable population with advanced kidney disease.

We continuously evaluate new technologies for treating heart, liver, lung, and kidney disease in order to provide the highest level of care for patients who need transplants, and we're investigating novel ways to increase the number of healthy donor organs so that we can help more people.

From an epidemiologic perspective, preeclampsia is growing at a rate more rapid than diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and chronic kidney disease — diseases for which substantial research and treatment funding have been allocated,» explained senior investigator Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

Dr. Diamantidis» research interests include the use of mobile technologies to promote patient engagement in chronic disease, person - centered chronic kidney disease care, patient safety, and health disparities in kidney disease.

The Joint Commission awards a Gold Seal of Approval to UC San Diego Health's Chronic Kidney Disease Program for quality of care.

Better care, they concluded, should reduce the lifetime incidence of blindness from 17 percent of patients down to 15 percent, of kidney failure from 18 down to 15 percent and of coronary artery disease from 28 to 24 percent.

In the June 2007 issue of Health Services Research, a University of Chicago - based research team reports that a relatively inexpensive national effort to improve the process of care at selected clinics was able to make enough difference in its first four years that, if sustained, it could reduce patients» lifetime risk of blindness, end - stage kidney disease and coronary artery disease — all common complications of diabetes.

Seven years diabetes free and still determined to realize her dream of motherhood, Jenkins was referred by her City of Hope care team to Gabriel Danovitch, M.D., who had been successful treating women with kidney transplants during pregnancy.

From 2008 to 2014, I directed the Programs in Kidney and Testicular Cancers at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and currently oversee the Division of Urology's Program in Surgical Outcomes, Quality Care, and Patient Safety.

At the Solid Tumor Oncology Program, part of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan, we provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for children with Wilm's tumor and other renal masses or kidney tumors.

«It's our goal to make minimally invasive partial nephrectomy the gold standard for how patients with appropriate kidney masses are cared for surgically, as clinical evidence shows it should be,» said S. Duke Herrell, M.D., professor of Urologic Surgery, Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering, and director of Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery and Robotics.