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DaVita complains that it is being treated unfairly in Illinois by health facilities board. |
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Chicago Business: Fighting to crack the Chicago market, dialysis provider DaVita Inc. says the state facilities board is allowing it to open fewer new clinics than its much bigger rival, Fresenius Medical Care A.
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Oops! Nurse throws living donor kidney awaiting transplant into trash by mistake. |
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Review: A nurse who accidentally disposed of a living donor's kidney during a transplant said she didn't realize it was in chilled, protective slush that she removed from an operating room, took down a hall to a dirty utility room and "flushed down a hopper," according to a report released by health officials on Monday.
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New CDC report based on NHANES data focuses on prevalence of hypertension in US. |
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Washington Post: A report issued Tuesday by the CDC finds that nearly a third of U.S. adults (nearly 67 million people) have hypertension — and that more than half of those people do not have their condition under control. Those estimates are based on data for nearly 23,000 participants in the federal National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2003 to 2010.
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Intravenous hypertonic saline solution reduces inflammation by shrinking cells. |
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EurekAlert: The researchers injected solutions with low ions into mice. They found that these solutions acted as a danger signal, causing cells to swell. The swelling then activates a group of proteins called NLRP3 which then release inflammatory mediators. These activate neighbouring cells to increase inflammation. However, when a hypertonic solution was administered to the mouse it drew the water out of the cells shrinking them back to their original size. This in turn deactivated the signal for inflammation.
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Lithium may not work in some patients; and these failures can be detect by lack of gene induction. |
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EurekAlert: Lithium is a 'gold standard' drug for treating bipolar disorder, however not everyone responds in the same way. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders finds that this is true at the levels of gene activation, especially in the activation or repression of genes which alter the level the apoptosis (programmed cell death). Most notably BCL2, known to be important for the therapeutic effects of lithium, did not increase in non-responders. This can be tested in the blood of patients within four weeks of treatment.
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