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Some dialysis centers to get less money for failing to meet CMS quality targets. |
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Sun Sentinel: One quarter of kidney dialysis centers in South Florida will have their Medicare payments cut next year because they did not meet medical care standards under a new federal program. Of about 100 dialysis centers in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, 25 will be hit with payment penalties of up to 2 percent, Medicare officials said.
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Mechanisms whereby sildenafil helps alleviate diastolic heart failure elucidated in dogs. |
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EurekAlert: The scientists showed that sildenafil makes stiffened cardiac walls more elastic again. The drug activates an enzyme that causes the giant protein titin in the myocardial cells to relax. "We have developed a therapy in an animal model that, for the first time, also raises hopes for the successful treatment of patients" says Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Linke of the RUB Institute of Physiology.
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FMCNA recognizes 25 dialysis patients across the nation - News-Medical.net |
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News-Medical.net
The nation's leading network of dialysis facilities is recognizing more than 25 patients across the nation who will be 100 years or older in 2012 and are still leading healthy, fulfilling lives without their kidney function.
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Richmond woman gives kidney to ailing former boss - Palladium-Item |
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Palladium-Item
His fluid intake is no longer restricted and he is free from dialysis. "It's pretty amazing for someone not related to our family to make that gift," said Dodds' daughter, Lara Dodds. Preston's husband, Roger Preston, and her daughters,
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Hope Fund: After decades of helping, volunteer now needs aid herself - Florida Times-Union |
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Florida Times-Union
Now, despite having to receive dialysis three times weekly and going through her own economic hardships, Boyd's spirit of giving has not faded. “If I read about somebody having a fire, then whatever money [I have], I buy linens or what I think they
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