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Illegal immigrants receive offers to return home for their health care

Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital's offer to send illegal immigrants who can't afford treatment back to their home countries is raising questions about how to handle health care for that population. Some say the practice is necessary financially while others worry about the patients.

1 Oct 2009

Dynavax commences Phase 3 trial for HEPLISAV hepatitis B vaccine

Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:DVAX) today announced the initiation of a Phase 3 registration trial for HEPLISAVTM hepatitis B vaccine in individuals with chronic kidney disease. A second registration trial, a Phase 3 lot-to-lot consistency trial, is expected to begin in early 2010. HEPLISAV is an investigational adult hepatitis B vaccine designed to provide increased, rapid protection with fewer doses than current licensed vaccines.

29 Sep 2009

Dialysis patients often not told about transplant options, Newspaper finds

"Thousands of kidney patients in the United States start dialysis without first being told of kidney transplants that would be cheaper and lead to longer lives, according to a four-month newspaper investigation published Sunday," The Associated Press reports.

28 Sep 2009

Mercy Memorial implements CDW's disaster recovery solution to increase reliability of critical clinical applications

CDW Healthcare, part of the public sector subsidiary of CDW Corporation and a leading provider of technology products and services to healthcare organizations, today announced that Mercy Memorial Hospital of Monroe, Mich., launched an extensive server virtualization and disaster recovery solution acquired from CDW Healthcare.

28 Sep 2009

Safety profiles of JANUVIA and JANUMET drugs established through clinical development program

Merck has thoroughly reviewed the safety data for sitagliptin, and sitagliptin was not associated with an increase in the incidence of pancreatitis in preclinical studies or in clinical trials of up to two years in duration with more than 6,000 patients.

28 Sep 2009

European CHMP recommends Merck's JANUVIA and JANUMET as add-on to insulin

Merck & Co., Inc., which operates in many countries as Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), has received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency’s (EMEA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for JANUVIA® tablets and JANUMET® tablets recommending their use as add-on to insulin for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

26 Sep 2009

10th Annual Clinical Team Conference to focus on clinical care

More than 1,400 hospice and palliative care professionals and researchers have gathered in Denver for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's 10th Annual Clinical Team Conference that begins today at the Hyatt Regency Denver.

25 Sep 2009

Profile of Grady Memorial Hospital highlights the difficulties faced by safety net facilities

The New York Times: Illegal immigrants say an effort to close the dialysis center at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta could synch their only source of care. The closure may foreshadow broader problems "safety-net" hospitals could face under the health care overhaul.

25 Sep 2009

Study reveals that kidney transplants do not affect pregnancy

Women who have had a kidney transplant and have good kidney function can get pregnant and give birth without jeopardizing their health or the health of their transplant. Having children does not affect patients' kidney function or their life-span compared with transplanted women who do not have children, according to a matching cohort study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).

25 Sep 2009

First Edition: September 24, 2009

Today's headlines shed light on developments during the second day of the Finance Committee's health bill mark up.

24 Sep 2009

Computational models form basis to design the device for recreating kidney function

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and two other academic institutions have received federal funding to systematically assemble functional human kidney tissue from tissue modeled on a computer. If successful, the research-which ties together several emerging technologies including virtual tissue modeling and nanofabrication-could lead to a more predictable way for researchers to engineer tissue outside the body and, consequently, to screen for new drugs.

24 Sep 2009

NIH, NephCure Foundation and University of Michigan support study of nephrotic syndrome

University of Michigan Health System researchers will lead a $10.25 million effort to study rare kidney diseases that cause kidney failure and the need for dialysis.

23 Sep 2009

Heart surgery can be scheduled anytime: Study

The October issue of the journal Anesthesiology contains a study reviewing potential adverse effects associated with the timing of a patient's heart surgery; but based on this study, there is no bad time of the day or week or year to have elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

23 Sep 2009

Transcatheter valve implantation is an effective treatment for patients with aortic stenosis

Research presented at the 21st annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), demonstrated an "exceptionally low" rate of complications one year after implantation of transcatheter aortic valve prostheses.

22 Sep 2009

Dialysis patient embarks on "Grandpa's Road Trip" with NxStage System One hemodialysis machine

NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced that home dialysis patient Harvey Wells, 57, has embarked on his third annual "Grandpa's Road Trip" with the NxStage(R) System One(TM). As a portable home hemodialysis machine, the NxStage System One provides Mr. Wells the opportunity to fit hemodialysis therapy into his own lifestyle and schedule. Mr. Wells is once again celebrating this freedom by traveling the country in his RV and sharing with other patients his experience doing home daily hemodialysis with the NxStage System One.

21 Sep 2009

PTA balloon catheter for high pressure dilation procedures

Invatec, a comprehensive innovator of interventional products, today announced the availability of REEF HP, a PTA Balloon Catheter, ideal for use in all peripheral high pressure dilatation procedures. The “lesion-specific” design of the balloon material is particularly useful in “hard-to-dilate” situations and the availability of variable shaft lengths mean that the Reef HP is equally suited to both arteriovenous (AV) shunts (50cm shaft),and peripheral applications (80/120cm shaft).

21 Sep 2009

Program to promote patients’ overall health following kidney transplant surgery

Patient adherence after a kidney transplant, or faithfully following a prescribed medical regimen, is vital to a transplant recipient's health and the survival of their new organ.

19 Sep 2009

Texas attemps to offer access to quality dialysis care

Local officials, physicians and patients in need of local dialysis care expressed encouragement over what appears to be a thawing of a certification logjam of dialysis facilities across the state of Texas, though remain concerned over 38 which still remain idling to many for more than a year – to the detriment of local jobs and patients in dire need of better access to quality dialysis care.

18 Sep 2009

Recipients of 2009 Norman S. Coplon Extramural Grants

Satellite Healthcare, one of the nation's first and leading providers of kidney dialysis services and a major sponsor of nephrology research, today announced the recipients of the 2009 Norman S. Coplon Extramural Grant Program.

18 Sep 2009

'Pathway to a Cure' walk event in California

Satellite Healthcare, one of the nation's first and leading providers of kidney dialysis services and a major sponsor of nephrology research, today announced their sponsorship of The Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation's "Pathway to a Cure" walk event in California's capital of Sacramento.

18 Sep 2009

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Latest Dialysis News and Research

Illegal immigrants receive offers to return home for their health care

Dynavax commences Phase 3 trial for HEPLISAV hepatitis B vaccine

Dialysis patients often not told about transplant options, Newspaper finds

Mercy Memorial implements CDW's disaster recovery solution to increase reliability of critical clinical applications

Safety profiles of JANUVIA and JANUMET drugs established through clinical development program

European CHMP recommends Merck's JANUVIA and JANUMET as add-on to insulin

10th Annual Clinical Team Conference to focus on clinical care

Profile of Grady Memorial Hospital highlights the difficulties faced by safety net facilities

Study reveals that kidney transplants do not affect pregnancy

First Edition: September 24, 2009

Computational models form basis to design the device for recreating kidney function

NIH, NephCure Foundation and University of Michigan support study of nephrotic syndrome

Heart surgery can be scheduled anytime: Study

Transcatheter valve implantation is an effective treatment for patients with aortic stenosis

Dialysis patient embarks on "Grandpa's Road Trip" with NxStage System One hemodialysis machine

PTA balloon catheter for high pressure dilation procedures

Program to promote patients’ overall health following kidney transplant surgery

Texas attemps to offer access to quality dialysis care

Recipients of 2009 Norman S. Coplon Extramural Grants

'Pathway to a Cure' walk event in California

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