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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By Mowad, Michelle  The local biotechnology and technology industries, highly dependent on very highly skilled workers, are waiting to see if their foreign job applicants have been awarded work visas.  U.S.
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A man who turned to the Internet in hopes of finding a kidney donor underwent dialysis Wednesday to prepare to receive his new organ, two days after a surgeon decided not to perform the procedure because of questions about the practice of Web matching.
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A former employee of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance pleaded guilty yesterday to running up credit-card bills using the identity of a patient, the first conviction under a 2003 federal law protecting patient privacy, according to the US Attorney&#39;s Office
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NEW YORK - A well-wisher from Chicago hoped he would have a speedy recovery. An admirer who had just read his autobiography felt it was like having a friend in the hospital...
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(LUMBER BRIDGE, North Carolina)-- About 3,000 North Carolinians are on the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant. More than half of those are in need of a kidney.
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A body part allegedly stolen in the US has been implanted in a patient in the UK, a hospital confirms.
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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.
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Indonesia's former dictator Suharto was responding well to dialysis treatment Sunday but remains in critical condition, his doctor said.
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A patient in a vegetative state can communicate using her thoughts, according to research.
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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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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site, hospital officials said.
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Surgeons completed a kidney transplant Wednesday in what is believed to be the first operation where the donor and recipient met through a commercial Web site.
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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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A man who donated his kidney to a dialysis patient he met through the Internet has accepted a television show's offer to take a lie detector test aimed at rebutting claims he was paid.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a  new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in  the United States using an organ found on a private Web site,  hospital officials said.
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Patients who have benefited from donated organs were today celebrating 50 years since the worldâs first successful transplant operation.