Haiti ’s Healthcare Nears Collapse Amid Violence as Hospitals Shutter, Medicine Dwindles
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her.
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They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen machine while keeping their eyes on a computer screen that reflected a dangerously low oxygen level of 84%.
No one knew what was wrong with her.
Even more worrisome, the Doctors Without Borders hospital in the Cite Soleil slum was running low on key medicine to treat convulsions.
“The me...
Source: TIME: Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dánica Coto / AP Tags: Uncategorized News Desk overnight wire Source Type: news
Managing CKD in Primary Care: Latest Guidelines Managing CKD in Primary Care: Latest Guidelines
An explosion of new treatments can stave off the need for dialysis in many patients with CKD.Medscape Family Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nephrology Commentary Source Type: news
GPs' failure to spot kidney disease is putting thousands at risk of dialysis as they are being diagnosed too late to benefit from treatments that could save their lives
A failure to test for the incurable condition means nearly two-thirds of all sufferers are diagnosed only after the disease has progressed to a dangerously advanced stage. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CMS: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
The Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking comments on the following information collections: 1) Outcome and Assessment Information Set OASIS-E1; 2) Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey; 3) Application for Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Part B (Medical Insurance) for People with End-Stage Renal Disease; and 4) End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Annual Home Dialysis within Nursing Home Survey Form. Comments are due by June 4, 2024. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - April 5, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Patient With Transplanted Pig Kidney Leaves Hospital for Home
Richard Slayman, 62, is the first patient to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Two weeks after the procedure, he was well enough to be discharged, doctors said. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Kidneys Genetic Engineering Pigs Immune System Transplants Black People Dialysis Surgery and Surgeons Urine Source Type: news
The Use of Low-Dose Dopamine in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
AbstractDopamine has been used for half a century in adult and pediatric patients for the treatment of hypotension, as well as for the theoretical prevention of acute kidney injury (AKI). Although activation of renal dopamine receptors leads to increased urine output, there is no evidence that low-dose dopamine reduces the incidence of AKI, need for dialysis, or death. Dopamine administration is also associated with multiple adverse effects, particularly in preterm infants. Despite the lack of evidence for its use, as well as the known adverse effects of dopamine, many neonatologists still use low-dose dopamine to prevent ...
Source: NeoReviews recent issues - April 1, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Once-Rejected Drug Now FDA Approved for CKD-Related Anemia
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved vadadustat (Vafseo) for chronic kidney disease (CKD)-related anemia in adults who have been on dialysis for at least 3 months, developer Akebia Therapeutics announced on Wednesday.
"Patients receiving maintenance... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - March 28, 2024 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
Two years after initial rejection, Akebia ’s anemia drug finally gets FDA approval
The FDA approved the Cambridge biotech's drug vadadustat for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease in adults who have been receiving dialysis for at least three months. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - March 28, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Hannah Green Source Type: news
FDA Approves Vafseo (vadadustat) for the Treatment of Anemia due to Chronic Kidney Disease in Adult Patients on Dialysis
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKBA), a biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of people impacted by kidney disease, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals - March 27, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
A Man Has Received the First Pig-Kidney Transplant
The first reported person in the world has received a genetically modified pig kidney. A transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully performed the groundbreaking, four-hour procedure on Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old manager at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, on March 16. His doctors report he is doing well and expect him to leave the hospital soon.
The surgery was the culmination of years of work transplanting kidneys from a specially bred group of pigs—which had been genetically modified to more closely resemble those of humans—into primates. Encouraged by those result...
Source: TIME: Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
62-year-old receives gene-edited pig kidney in milestone transplant surgery
The advance gives hope to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who depend on dialysis machines to do the work of their failing kidneys. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mark Johnson Source Type: news
Hemodialysis History Does Not Impact Peritoneal Dialysis Dropout
THURSDAY, March 21, 2024 -- Peritoneal dialysis (PD) dropout seems not to be influenced by a history of hemodialysis (HD), according to a review published online March 5 in BMC Nephrology.
Xingge Sun, from Queen ' s University Belfast in the United... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 21, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney Into a Patient, a Medical Milestone
The man continues to improve, doctors said. Organs from genetically engineered pigs one day may make dialysis obsolete. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Kidneys Genetic Engineering Pigs Surgery and Surgeons Immune System Doctors Cloning Diabetes Black People Urine Blood Massachusetts General Hospital Boston (Mass) Source Type: news
Kidney patients offered ‘risky’ technique
Jasna Macanovic was sacked after questioning a "risky" dialysis practice championed by ex-colleagues. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
