Visa row patient secures dialysis
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A terminally-ill woman removed from the UK after her visa expired is to start hospital treatment in Ghana.
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It took a record nine months in intensive care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, but a Kansas man will be back home Saturday, thanks to an experimental heart-assist device that keeps his heart pumping.
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The demand for dialysis brings new strains to MedicareÂs budget and prompts the question: When is it ethical to stop the treatment?
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The nation&#39;s third-largest operator of renal-dialysis clinics has agreed to pay the federal government $350 million to settle civil and criminal charges that it defrauded Medicare, a US attorney said Thursday.
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The love in his eyes is almost tangible as kidney donor Jeffrey Molaolwa relaxes in his 10-year-old daughter Patience&#39;s ward in Red Cross Children&#39;s Hospital.
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NEW YORK, December 7  - DaVita Inc (DVA.NYS) has agreed to acquire Gambroâs dialysis clinics in the US for $3.1 billion in cash, a Bloomberg article said today.
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CONSTRUCTION of two new kidney dialysis units together worth BD200,000 will start at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) in January. They are being funded with money from a Kuwaiti donor, revealed
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THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- US health officials acknowledged Thursday the very slight possibility that West Nile virus may have been transmitted through dialysis last summer.
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NEW YORK  - Treatment with a statin drug --  such as Lipitor or Zocor -- significantly reduces the risk of  cardiac and non-cardiac death in people on hemodialysis,  investigators report.
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World&#39;s top dialysis provider to hand over documents on hormone-level testing, vitamin D therapy. FRANKFURT  - Fresenius Medical Care, the world&#39;s top dialysis provider, has received an order from
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One of four brothers diagnosed with a rare disease is re-admitted to hospital following a transplant.
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When my kidneys failed, I thought I'd have to wait for an anonymous donor.
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DENVER Oct 20, 2004 - A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of an artificial heart made by SynCardia Systems as a temporary device for people awaiting transplants.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- For a few days, Garrett Lucash thought he might have to skate while hooked up to an intravenous tube.
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Even though patients are waiting longer for a kidney transplant, those who do get one live longer than those who remain on dialysis, according to data presented last
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Fresenius Medical Care AG, the world&#39;s largest provider of dialysis care, said US prosecutors have subpoenaed documents about its operations, making it the third company involved in an industrywide investigation.