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Category Archives: Dialysis
Dialysis is the FDA hotbed, once again
There’s a new program at the US Food and Drug Administration. One designed to afford innovative devices a speedier review process. This Innovation Pathway 2.0 program is designed for pre-market evaluations of medical devices, expediting the process without reducing the … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Dialysis
Tagged Dialysis, Food and Drug Administration, innovation, Kidney, Medical device, regulatory approval
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Silent Killer
One of the biggest components of the US Healthcare costs is kidney failure. About 1/9 of Americans (26 million) suffer from chronic kidney disease. $ 40 billion a year in costs. Almost 400,000 of Americans undergo dialysis thrice weekly. Share … Continue reading
AWAK. What’s that? A VA hope for the future…
The Veterans Administration is trying hard to fulfill its mission of caring for vets. Given the last 10 years of war, with its high casualty rate for both troops and reserves, this mission is going to be more difficult in … Continue reading
Posted in Dialysis
Tagged AWAK, Dialysis, Martin Roberts, University of California Los Angeles, Wearable artificial kidney
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7… Seven Links
THIS POST HAS MANY LINKS. AND, I AM NOT WORRIED ABOUT PEOPLE STEALING THIS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. SO, IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO RIGHT CLICK ON A LINK TO OPEN IT IN A NEW WINDOW OR A NEW TAB, … Continue reading
Kidneys. Stem Cells. Breakthroughs.
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Posted in Dialysis, Medicine
Tagged Embryonic stem cell, Induced pluripotent stem cell, Kidney, Stem cell
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Big changes afoot (pun intended) for blood clot control…
For 57 years, patients have been receiving Coumadin to reduce the risk of blood clots. What most of them don’t know is that their “drug” really rat poison- warfarin. That is not really the problem (other than the “yech” factor)- … Continue reading
Posted in Dialysis, Medicine, Technology
Tagged Atrial fibrillation, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dabigatran, Rivaroxaban, Thrombus, Warfarin
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Dialysis is BIG business. It’s going to get BIGGER still!
Some days I just can’t believe it. More than ½ a million Americans have kidney failure; about 350,000 are on dialysis. These are so much higher than the numbers we expected way back in the early 70’s. While most of … Continue reading
Hope for Kidney Patients?
We have a tremendous problem here in America (and the world). We are becoming fat and lazy. Invariably, that means diabetes is on the rise. Inevitably, that means kidney failure is imminent. (And, some of us are already on that … Continue reading
Posted in Dialysis, Medicine
Tagged Diabetes mellitus, Diabetes mellitus type 2, Dialysis, Ketogenic diet, Renal failure
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A Bioartificial Kidney is Introduced
We expect scientists and engineers to provide us with the truth. And, generally, they do. And, there are times when scientists and engineers are allowed to dream and tell us their dreams. The problem is when folks take those talks … Continue reading
Posted in Dialysis, Medicine
Tagged Artificial organ, Fake Science, Kidney, Regenerative Medicine, scaffolds
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Remember those “death panels”?
There was a great deal of controversy two years ago about the supposed imposition of “death panels” in Obama’s health care plan. Yet, there seems to be no controversy whatsoever about the “death panels” that are implicit in the more … Continue reading
Posted in Dialysis, Economy
Tagged death, death panel, Dialysis, dialysis costs, HR, HSC, plan
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