The television drama ER has been delivering excellent stories around death and dying as well as the misadventures of the walking wounded for fifteen years now. After a long break, I have returned to faithfully follow it’s final season and it has not disappointed. The plot and multiple story lines of ER are quite complex and unfold over weeks so serendipity was probably the cause for last night’s episode to deal with the topic of kidney disease and kidney transplants on World Kidney Day. As I discussed in Wednesday’s post, the purpose of World Kidney Day is to increase awareness. The aim is to prevent chronic kidney disease by encouraging people to make choices that support healthy kidneys and get appropriate screening test for kidney function when necessary.
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The Story of a Kidney
Posted in on Treatment, the Question of Ethics, tagged autonomy, bioethics, kidney disease, television, TV on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
March 12, 2009 is World Kidney Day
Posted in on Learning, on Prevention, tagged diet, exercise, featured health observance, heart disease, kidney disease, prevention on March 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow, March 12 is World Kidney Day. Last month we discussed how heart disease is the leading cause of death for American women. Unfortunately, too few Americans realize, however, that chronic kidney disease is another life-threatening illness that often goes undetected until it reaches very advanced stages.
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A Minute of Health with CDC- Mumps Makes a Comeback December 24, 2009Since 2006, CDC has documented an increased number of mumps outbreaks. This podcast discusses how mumps is now occurring in teenagers and young adults, after once being thought of as only a childhood disease, and how people in public places are most at risk. Vaccination is still the safest bet to prevent mumps from occurring.
- Mumps Makes a Comeback December 24, 2009
- NYTimes: Health
- Officials Re-examining Organ Transplant Rules December 28, 2009Two kidney transplant patients who contracted brain infections raised the question of whether people with certain neurological conditions should be barred as donors.
- Months to Live: Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Sedation December 27, 2009Inducing sleep with drugs near the end of life is a widely used treatment even as it vexes families and doctors.
- States With Expanded Health Coverage Fight Bill December 27, 2009States that have already broadened health care coverage say that the Senate overhaul bill unfairly penalizes them.
- Officials Re-examining Organ Transplant Rules December 28, 2009
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- WashingtonPost: Health
- Military helps families find care for special-needs kids December 28, 2009When her husband, a Marine Corps colonel, was transferred last summer from the Pentagon to a base in southern California, Karen Driscoll was forced to confront her autistic child's new school district and the intricacies of federal special education law.
- Maryland cancer-testing firm MarkPap lands first customer December 28, 2009Nenad and Olivera Markovic labored for years to design a low-cost kit that could be used for the early detection of cervical cancer in women in poor and underdeveloped regions. This month, the two Rockville doctors and their start-up firm landed a first customer.
- Obama lists financial rescue as 'most important thing' of his first year December 23, 2009President Obama outlined Tuesday a first-year legislative record that he said rescued the economy and placed it on a path of long-term growth, even as he acknowledged that some unfinished items would probably be more difficult to achieve heading into a midterm election year.
- Military helps families find care for special-needs kids December 28, 2009
- WSJ: Health
- Just How Big Is the Hole in the Medicare Doughnut? December 28, 2009Bridging the gap might be easier if there were more data on how big the hole was and its closing costs down the road.
- SEC: Men Made ‘Illicit Profits’ in Sanofi-Chattem Deal December 24, 2009Sure, there was a logic to Sanofi's $1.9 billion acquisition of Chattem. As we noted a few days back, it's the latest example of a big drug company looking to diversify into the more stable consumer products business. But a couple of investors may have had a bit more insight into the deal than that, the SEC alleged this week. The agency said it obt […]
- Senate Bill: Reactions from Doctors, Insurers, Business, Etc. December 24, 2009The short version: The AMA, drug industry and AARP backed the bill; health insurers and the Chamber of Commerce did not.
- Just How Big Is the Hole in the Medicare Doughnut? December 28, 2009
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