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Dialysis At Home? Medicare Wants More Patients To Try It

Edit Springfield News-Sun 06 Oct 2016
About half a million Americans need dialysis, which cleans toxins from the body when the kidneys can’t anymore. It can cost more than $50,000 a year, and takes hours each week at a dialysis center ... That sounds like great news to Dr ... The machine slowly pumps the fluid into his lower abdomen, where it circulates and absorbs bodily wastes through blood vessels in the abdominal lining called the peritoneum ... At St ... ....

Feds Say More People Should Try Dialysis At Home

Edit National Public Radio 04 Oct 2016
Enlarge this image. Nurses teach patients how to use equipment and do peritoneal dialysis at home. Life in View/Science Source hide caption. toggle caption. Life in View/Science Source. Nurses teach patients how to use equipment and do peritoneal dialysis at home ... The machine slowly pumps the fluid into his lower abdomen, where it circulates and absorbs bodily wastes through blood vessels in the abdominal lining called the peritoneum ... ....

Evotec receives further important pre-clinical milestone in endometriosis alliance with Bayer (Evotec AG)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
(Source. Evotec AG). Hamburg, Germany, 29 September 2016. Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange. EVT, TecDAX, ISIN ... The milestone was achieved under the strategic alliance between Evotec and Bayer entered in October 2012 ... Dr Mario Polywka, Chief Operating Officer of Evotec, commented ... ABOUT ENDOMETRIOSIS ... Endometrial growth is commonly found on the ovaries and pelvic peritoneum, potentially involving other organs of the pelvic cavity as e.g....

Evotec Receives Further Important Pre-Clinical Milestone in Endometriosis Alliance with Bayer

Edit Stockhouse 29 Sep 2016
Evotec Receives Further Important Pre-Clinical Milestone in Endometriosis Alliance with Bayer. Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange. EVT, TecDAX, ISIN ... The milestone was achieved under the strategic alliance between Evotec and Bayer entered in October 2012 ... Financial details were not disclosed ... Endometrial growth is commonly found on the ovaries and pelvic peritoneum, potentially involving other organs of the pelvic cavity as e.g ... Language....

What is peritonitis, the condition that killed Euclid High School football player?

Edit Cleveland 27 Sep 2016
Andre JacksonEuclid City School District . CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office on Tuesday ruled that Andre Jackson, the 17-year-old Euclid High School football player, died of a condition called peritonitis after he was hit in the abdomen ... Here are some facts about peritonitis.. What is it? ... That silk-like lining is called the peritoneum ... What causes it? ... What are the symptoms? ... ....

Fighting cancer with sticky nanoparticles (Yale University)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Sep 2016
(Source. Yale University). By William Weir. September 19, 2016. Sticky nanoparticles that deliver drugs precisely to their targets - and then stay there - could play a crucial role in fighting ovarian and uterine cancers ... To that end, the Yale team developed nanoparticles covered with aldehyde groups, which chemically adhered to mesothelial cells in the abdominal cavity when injected into the peritoneum ... (noodl. 35430372) ....

Fashion show to benefit VICC ovarian cancer research September 15, 2016 (Vanderbilt University)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016
(Source. Vanderbilt University). Fall fashions for women will be on display during the 4 Annual Chic Awearness Fashion Show promoting ovarian cancer awareness and research. The event, to be held Monday, Sept. 26, 6.30 to 8.30 p.m., will benefit the T.J ... S. in Nashville ... Cancers of the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and the peritoneum (lining of the abdominal cavity) are the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in the U.S ... (noodl....

Cardiometabolic Disease: Big Data Tackles a Big Health Problem (NIH - National Institutes of Health)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Sep 2016
(Source. NIH - National Institutes of Health) ... A great example, which may have flown a bit under the radar during the summer holidays, involves cardiometabolic disease ... They found that when they looked at gene expression levels in their STARNET volunteers' tissues, it was PCSK9 activity in visceral abdominal fat (the part of belly fat located within the peritoneum)-not the liver-that was associated with risk of early heart attacks....

Antibe Therapeutics Announces the Launch of Neomem® FlexPlus, a High-Performance Barrier Membrane for Oral Surgery

Edit Stockhouse 16 Aug 2016
Antibe Therapeutics Announces the Launch of Neomem® FlexPlus, a High-Performance Barrier Membrane for Oral Surgery. Antibe Therapeutics Inc. ("Antibe") (TSXV. ATE, OTCQX. ATBPF) today announces that its subsidiary Citagenix Inc. (“Citagenix”) has launched Neomem® FlexPlus, a high-performance barrier membrane for regenerative procedures in oral surgery ... Neomem® FlexPlus is a single layer collagen membrane derived from porcine peritoneum....

Evotec achieves clinical development milestone as part of its multi-target alliance with Bayer in endometriosis (Evotec AG)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2016
(Source. Evotec AG). Hamburg, Germany, 04 August 2016. Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange. EVT, TecDAX, ISIN ... This milestone was achieved under the strategic alliance between Evotec and Bayer entered in October 2012 ... Dr Mario Polywka, Chief Operating Officer of Evotec, commented ... ABOUT ENDOMETRIOSIS ... Endometrial growth is commonly found on the ovaries and pelvic peritoneum, potentially involving other organs of the pelvic cavity as e.g....

Evotec Achieves Clinical Development Milestone as Part of Its Multi-Target Alliance with Bayer in Endometriosis

Edit Stockhouse 04 Aug 2016
Evotec Achieves Clinical Development Milestone as Part of Its Multi-Target Alliance with Bayer in Endometriosis. Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange. EVT, TecDAX, ISIN ... This milestone was achieved under the strategic alliance between Evotec and Bayer entered in October 2012 ... ABOUT ENDOMETRIOSIS ... Endometrial growth is commonly found on the ovaries and pelvic peritoneum, potentially involving other organs of the pelvic cavity as e.g ... Phone....

Newly Discovered Emergency Responders to Liver Damage

Edit The Scientist 01 Aug 2016
EDITOR'S CHOICE IN IMMUNOLOGY. The paper. J. Wang, P. Kubes, “A reservoir of mature cavity macrophages that can rapidly invade visceral organs to affect tissue repair,” Cell, 165.668-78, 2016 ... But it also serves a less-appreciated, but crucial, duty ... ... Rather, the cells expressed GATA6, a marker specific to large macrophages from the peritoneum, the body cavity that surrounds visceral organs such as the liver ... ... ... ....

Hope for better ovarian cancer drugs

Edit Otago Daily Times 13 Jul 2016
Gaofeng Fan, who conducted most of the experiments, says there is an urgent need to address the advanced stages of this cancer because currently it's very hard to cure patients of the disease via surgery because of the way the cancer cells move around the body once it's spread from the ovary to the peritoneum, the lining of the abdominal cavity....
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