Dialysis treatment often comes with long-term physical and emotional stress, and sharing experiences and mutual encouragement among patients can alleviate feelings of loneliness and anxiety, strengthening their confidence in treatment [49]. Secondly, close collaboration with healthcare professionals (HCPs) ...
Campbell said, that’s where patient education comes in. The most common type of home dialysis, called peritoneal dialysis, often is done at night while the patient is sleeping
Strong support for the use of mupirocin in preventing ESI and peritonitis comes from a systemic analysis of 13 articles (1233 patients vs 1217 controls). Based on the six non randomised trials, the reduced risk rate for mupirocin therapy was found to be 80% (95% CI: 0.39-0.93, P = ...
Guaranteeing the right to health in SSA therefore comes with several challenges, one being lack of adequate resources. To appreciate how the challenge of lack of adequate resources undermines the realization of the right to health, we must we must contextualize it under the essential elements of ...
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for the use of Veklury ® (remdesivir).
Raw water to be used for the preparation of dialysis water shall meet the water quality standards based on the Water Supply Act (Law No. 177, 1957), no matter which sources the raw water comes from, e.g., municipal water or groundwater. Commentary Raw water to be used for dialysis wat...
The U.S. dialysis market is dominated by two large firms:DaVita, which is based in Denver, andFresenius, with headquarters in Germany. DaVita and Fresenius are rivals when it comes to running dialysis clinics but, because Fresenius alsomanufactures dialysis machines, DaVita is also one of the...
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H.M.L.Y. is supported by grants from the National Institute for Health Research (Funding number—NIHR301593). The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. ...
(68 ± 0.38) simultaneously, compared to the CMX membrane, which has removal rates of almost 10–13% under those of the CMV (65 ± 0.37% and 55 ± 0.47% for Ca2+ and Mg2+, respectively), and the CMS membrane, which has almost 30% less in the removal rates of the same two ...