Anthony Davis, president of Livingstone College in Salisbury, talks about his decision to announce that he needs a kidney ...

but peritoneal dialysis, which involves him being hooked up to a machine that aids the filtration of his blood inside his stomach for 9-1/2 hours a night. Dialysis fluid fills his abdomen ...

Sodium bicarbonate has some down sides, but there are suitable alternatives, including increased intake of fruits and vegetables and sodium citrate. Metabolic acidosis is a common yet often overlooked ...

Inc. Pruitt Aortic Occlusion Catheter Occlusion balloon Distal Designed for the purpose of obtaining rapid control of in-flow blood in the abdominal aorta in cases of ruptured aortic aneurysm or in ...

Lowering pH from 7.2 to 5.5, to test the possibility that absorption occurred by passive non-ionic diffusion, had no effect on absorption rates, although pH rose rapidly in the dialysis fluid. These ...

The Maine CDC is excited to announce that we are modernizing our Tuberculosis (TB) reporting system. Currently, inactive TB (also known as Latent TB Infection or LTBI) cases and suspect and confirmed ...