Tag: metabolic
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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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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…
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Pregnant NBC ‘Today’ anchor Guthrie skipping Olympics due to Zika
Savannah Guthrie, co-anchor of NBC's “Today” show, said on Tuesday she is pregnant and will not travel to Brazil to cover the Olympics in August for the network due to concerns over the Zika virus, which has been linked to the birth defect microcephaly. “I'm not going to be able to go to Rio,” Guthrie…