Dialysis News

In the DC area, there are nearly 6,000 dialysis patients, and some are being left out in the cold due to the snow.

Ida Moulaison was beside herself in awe as she took in the sights while visiting Lakeridge Health Oshawa's spacious new dialysis unit.

Before she started receiving dialysis treatments at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, Bineet Kaur was so sick from kidney failure she could hardly walk.

A dvocates for battered and abused women everywhere won an important victory when the Department of Homeland Security finally cleared the way for Rody Alvarado Pena of Guatemala to win political asylum in this country.

A clinic closure in Atlanta has patients and clinic officials struggling to find new providers that will treat low-income patients who need kidney dialysis, The Associated Press reports.

Before she started receiving dialysis treatments at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, Bineet Kaur was so sick from kidney failure she could hardly walk.

Before she started receiving dialysis treatments at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, Bineet Kaur was so sick from kidney failure she could hardly walk.

I recently had the pleasure of reading an Op-Ed piece in the Sandusky-Register Sunday Edition Jan 24,2010. The author Mr Bob Russ, a former Editor for the Sandusky-Register, writes "Put on a Happy Face---It's Contagious" Mr Bob Russ continues his tale of during his very early morning drive to his dialysis treatment he stops for a coffee and a ...

The storm that hit the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation left deep snow. A utility truck follows a 4-mile trench on Jan.

The Associated Press/CNBC reports that New York Gov. David Paterson is "proposing new, tougher prohibitions on pharmaceutical companies, restricting them from dispensing gifts and misleading production information to doctors while promoting the use of specific drugs." Nine states have similar legislation.

New equipment will also be available at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Bodelwyddan and Wrexham-Maelor Hospital - to support ongoing treatment for kidney patients.

Baxter International reported a 1 percent profit increase for the fourth-quarter on Thursday, meeting Wall Street expectations but failing to impress analysts accustomed to bigger gains from the medical products maker.

Illegals still swamping University Medical Center Last year, a Review-Journal report exposed the abuse of University Medical Center's emergency room by 80 illegal immigrants with failing kidneys.

'IS it Friday yet? 'We do not gossip,' 'we distribute vital information' and 'I hate mornings, they come so early' were some of the catchy lines on three of the eight notepads illustrated by cartoonist Reggie Lee as part of a fundraising project in aid of the MAA-MEDIcare Kidney Charity Fund.

HOPKINS COUNTY, KY The Madisonville-Hopkins County Library has announced that it will become an ongoing partner with the Madisonville Dialysis Center.

STAFF and patients at the Royal Devon & Exeter hospital have celebrated a special milestone - " 40 years of the Exeter Kidney Unit serving the community.

There are now four more of them regularly making their way to the emergency room at University Medical Center.

KULA, Maui - In February and March, consumers on the county's Upper and Lower Kula water systems will be asked to conserve water while a 2-million-gallon storage tank at Omaopio is upgraded.

Shropshire health bosses today said they hope to give an update on plans for a dialysis unit at Ludlow Hospital next month.

THE first patients at the new temporary dialysis unit at Ysbyty Alltwen, Tremadog, had their first treatment this week.