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Healthcare Business News New company formed to buy 30 dialysis clinics from DaVita - ModernHealthcare.com |
ModernHealthcare.com
A new company backed by two venture-capital firms has been formed to buy 30 dialysis clinics from DaVita, which agreed to divest 29 facilities as a condition of its $689 million acquisition of DSI Renal. The company—called DSI—will be
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Washing your hospital scrubs at home? Water may not be hot enough to kill drug-resistant bacteria. |
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EurekAlert: Residential washing machines may not always use hot enough water to eliminate dangerous bacteria like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Acinetobacter, a Gram-negative bacteria, from hospital uniforms, according to a study published in the November issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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Generous Donation to Benefit Good Sam Dialysis Patients - Patch.com |
Patch.com
Good Samaritan Hospital recently announced that they have received a generous donation from the late Helen K. Dodd, a lifelong Long Islander, that will go exclusively toward the care of dialysis patients. Funds from Dodd's estate will be
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Vitamin D deficiency common in patients taking oral steroids. |
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EurekAlert: People taking oral steroids are twice as likely as the general population to have severe vitamin D deficiency, according to a study of more than 31,000 children and adults by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Their findings, in the September 28 online edition of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, suggest that physicians should more diligently monitor vitamin D levels in patients being treated with oral steroids.
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Gut protein alphavbeta6 may be key to developing immune tolerance |
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EurekAlert: body to produce immune tolerant cells, which ensured that the food did not cause an excessive immune reaction. Researchers then generated alphavbeta6 using cultured intestinal cells and found that both could be used to generate the immune tolerant cells needed to reduce or eliminate out-of-control immune reactions.
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