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Danger coming with hope: Amgen's Anemia Drugs Ailing
DanyC submitted, created time 9 months 3 days (www.forbes.com)
There is a $10 billion market for drugs to treat the anemia that occurs after kidney dialysis and cancer chemotherapy. Well, a new study said Amgen and Johnson & Johnson's anti-anemia treatments raise the risk of death via blood clots, and worries coming, that these medicines actually harm patients when overused have caused doctors to limit prescriptions. 


Diabetic patients treated with dialysis: complications and quality of life
yangjane submitted, created time 1 year 3 weeks (www.springerlink.com)
Micro- and macrovascular complications were significantly more frequent in diabetic dialysis patients than in diabetic patients without renal disease. Self-rated physical health was significantly worse (p 


Blood vessels grown from patient's own tissues used successfully in human patients
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.nytimes.com)
Thirteen months and so far so good. Unlike earlier techniques used in Japan, which involved growing cells on a scaffold that slowly dissolved after implantation, scientists in Argentina grew whole stretches of blood vessel from the patients' own cells. The patients in question have damaged veins and arteries in their arms from regular dialysis.
This does not involve stem cells of any kind. A strip of skin is removed from the patient, but the fibroblast and endothelial cells are taken from the inside of the veins in that strip of skin 


Dialysis Facility Ownership and Epoetin Dosing in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis
medal submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (jama.ama-assn.org)
"Dialysis facility organizational status and ownership are associated with variation in epoetin dosing in the United States. Different epoetin dosing patterns suggest that large for-profit chain facilities used larger dose adjustments and targeted higher hematocrit levels. " 


"Swiss cheese" molecule may provide better kidney dialysis
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.sciam.com)
University of Rochester -- A porous layer of silicon half the width of a human hair can separate proteins that differ in size by a factor of two, a great improvement over the current factor of ten. This has consequences for kidney dialysis and for emergency air filters used by military personnel. What else might it help, I wonder? 
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