Showing posts with label dialysis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dialysis. Show all posts
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Kidney disease in war-torn Sudan

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 The Lancet brings us this news from Sudan. Kidney failure in Sudan: thousands of lives at risk by Hatim A Hassan, Mohamed Hany Hafez, Vale...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Crowdsourcing organ transplant ethics

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 In Slate, an upbeat article about the ethical issues associated with deceased organ allocation and (before that) access to dialysis, and th...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

SCOTUS on dialysis and DaVita

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  The Supreme Court delivered a number of decisions recently, and the news coverage has rightly focused on the decisions that will increase ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Dialysis provider DaVita enters the transplant space

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  Here's the press release: DaVita Acquires MedSleuth, Deepens Efforts to Improve Transplant Experience. Transplant software company hel...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

The complex economics of dialysis and insurance, in Freakonomics

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 Freakonomics peeks under the rocks to see what crawls out: Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All? (Ep. 457)  by Stephen J. Dubner ...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Covid-19, kidney failure, and dialysis

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Corona virus and kidney failure are a bad combination, whichever way you look at it. On the one hand, Covid-19 is causing kidney failure. O...
Monday, February 10, 2020

The blowback following Trump's executive order concerning dialysis

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It turns out that traditional dialysis providers are not rallying behind President Trump's suggestion that home dialysis could serve ma...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Transplantation rates for patients in non-profit versus for-profit dialysis centers

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From JAMA,September 10, 2019  Volume 322, Number 10: J::AMA September 10, 2019 Volume 322, Number 10 Association Between Dialysis Facili...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Alex Azar (Secretary of HH&S) writes about possible new kidney policies

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In the New Hampshire Business Review, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services writes about the recent executive o...
Saturday, May 4, 2019

Global kidney health atlas from the International Society of Nephrology

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Here's the 2019 Global Health Atlas Kidney transplantation is nowhere readily available to everyone who needs it,  but the wealthy ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Payments for kidney disease in the U.S.

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Medpage Today has the story: Kidney Disease Payment System Draws Medicare Scrutiny 'We do not think the state of kidney disease care...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Kidney dialysis on the California Ballot?

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An Orange County Register op-ed discusses a likely referendum to control dialysis costs, and some better proposals... How to help the 18,...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Tax credit for adopting a child

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Philip Held draws my attention to this oped from the WSJ, by By Jedd Medefind (who is president of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, and ...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Big Dialysis (or, why we need to increase access to transplants)

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Here's a polemical story from the Washington Monthly: it gives a good picture of why it's pretty terrible to be on dialysis, but ca...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Travel while on dialysis

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One of the burdens of kidney failure is that, while waiting for the chance of a transplant, patients often have to spend several hours seve...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Portable hemodialysis?

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When I was in Trento I was approached by a team from an Italian-Californian startup that is trying to develop a portable hemodialysis syste...
Friday, May 26, 2017

The big dialysis business

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Here's an interesting report that goes well with the J ohn Oliver video a little while ago: Why DaVita is being regulated, investigat...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Dialysis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Laughing through the tears... The video briefly mentions a new living donor information source and database, Give and Live .
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Friday, December 30, 2016

The American Kidney Fund, in the NY Times, and riposte from the AKF

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In a nuanced back and forth, the NY Times has suggested that the American Kidney Fund is abusing its status as a charity for patients who c...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Many dialysis patients are not referred to transplant centers in their first years on dialysis (incentives matter...)

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Too Few Kidney Dialysis Patients Referred for Organ Transplant, Study Finds Only about one in four in Georgia get further evaluation ...