Tag: kidney-failure
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Wearable artificial kidney offers hope for dialysis patients
More than 2 million people worldwide with kidney failure require chronic dialysis. Longer, more frequent dialysis would offer better outcomes, but current dialysis machines aren’t portable. “As a physician who cares for patients with kidney disease, it is my hope that in the future we have something better to offer than we do today for…
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U.S. panel reaffirms syphilis screening advice as infections rise
By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – Doctors should offer testing for syphilis to men who have sex with men, people living with HIV and others at an increased risk of the sexually transmitted disease, a U.S. government-backed panel recommended on Tuesday. The recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reaffirms its 2004…