Category: Kidney
Do you really need to drink 8 glasses of water a day?
Drinking eight glasses of eight ounces of water per day, is not right for everyone.
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Northwest Kidney Centers names Rebecca Cofinas Fox president and CEO
Fox will start work at Northwest Kidney Centers March 23. She becomes the fourth CEO in the organization’s history
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Polycystic kidney disease, the most common genetic kidney disorder you’ve probably never heard of
For about half of people with this condition will eventually progress to kidney failure.
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Dialysis Industry Spends Big To Protect Profits
In California, the dialysis industry spent about $2.5 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the first half of this year in its ongoing battle to thwart regulation.
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What The Trump Home Dialysis Plan Would Really Look Like
Home dialysis isn’t right for everyone. Seniors with bad eyesight, poor fine-motor coordination, or cognitive impairment generally can’t undertake this therapy.
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First Kidney Failure, Then A $540,842 Bill For Dialysis
Before finding a dialysis clinic in their insurance network, a Montana man was charged more than half a million dollars for 14 weeks of the treatment
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Calls Grow For Medicare To Cover Anti-Rejection Drugs After Kidney Transplant
Medicare has covered transplant patients who had end-stage renal disease. But coverage ends after 36 months for those younger than 65.
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Using Obamacare Authority, Trump Aims To Shift Dialysis Care To Patients’ Homes
The initiative aims to increase the number of patients getting dialysis at home and double the annual number of kidneys available for transplants.
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Dialysis patients overoptimistic about their life expectancy, UW study finds.
Only one in 10 dialysis patients survey were aware that their average life expectancy was less than five years.
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Northwest Kidney Centers to open new dialysis clinic in south Everett
Clinic is scheduled to open in late 2020 in the Everett Mall Office Park in south Everett.
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Ballot initiative seeks to limit dialysis centers’ profits
The question is whether a California ballot initiative to limit the profit of dialysis clinics will protect lives or end them.
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