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National Renal Administrators Conference to begin in Savannah, GA on October 10. PDF Print
NRAA: As the National Renal Administrators Association celebrates 35 years of advocacy and education in 2012, the Annual Conference provides an opportunity to examine the past, present and future of ESRD and patient care. This conference will provide a look at the history of the ESRD program and how it has evolved over forty years. It will also address the present legislative, legal, clinical and business issues facing the dialysis industry today and provide the tools needed to provide optimal patient care in the current environment. Lastly, the program will showcase some of the technology and projections shaping the future of ESRD care and treatment. The conference will provide medical directors, nurses and administrators with the opportunity to learn and share best practices and approaches to the medical, procedural, clinical and operational facets of ESRD patient care.

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Missouri attorney drops inquiry into DaVita without filing any charges. PDF Print
Reuters: Dialysis clinic operator DaVita Inc said the U.S. Attorney's Office in St. Louis dropped a seven-year-long civil and criminal investigation into its financial and marketing practices and that no charges would be filed.

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Increasing levels of FGF2 tied to age-related muscle wasting; reversed with an inhibitory drug. PDF Print
Human Kinetics: The researchers from King’s College London, Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital also discovered how to halt the ageing process in mice by administering a common a protein inhibiting drug. The study looked at stem cells found inside muscle and responsible for repairing injury to find out why the ability of muscles to regenerate declines with age.

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100K units of vitamin D per month does not reduce incidence of colds. PDF Print
EurekAlert (JAMA): The average 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) level of participants at the beginning of the study was 29 ng/mL. Vitamin D supplementation resulted in an increase in serum 25-OHD levels that was maintained at greater than 48 ng/mL throughout the study. There were 593 URTI episodes in the vitamin D group and 611 in the placebo group.

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University of Pennsylvania and LDOs to launch hemodialysis TIME trial as part of NIH HCS Research Collaboratory PDF Print
NIH: Funds, totaling approximately $11.3 million, will support the first year of the Health Care Systems (HCS) Research Collaboratory, which will engage health care systems as research partners in conducting large-scale clinical studies. The funds are managed through the Common Fund at the National Institutes of Health.......The eight awards funded as part of the collaboratory include the HCS Research Collaboratory Coordinating Center (Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Dr. Robert M. Califf) and the following seven pragmatic clinical trial demonstration projects: ...... Pragmatic Trials in Maintenance Hemodialysis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Dr. Laura M. Dember.

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