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Few Kidney Patients Can Access Palliative Care or Hospice—Why?
Treatments that reduce suffering and incorporate patient values aren’t common in kidney disease care. That’s changing
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The Lifesaving Potential of Less Than Perfect Donor Kidneys
Demand for healthy kidneys has long outstripped supply. But better testing and treatment are expanding the donor pool
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For Black and Brown Kidney Patients, There Are Higher Hurdles to Care
Minority patients are diagnosed later, stay on dialysis longer and are added to transplant lists less quickly. Why?
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A Nurse’s Message about the COVID-19 Vaccine
Nurse Kristen Choi says health care providers need to better educate patients about possible side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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Should Your Kidney Doctor Have a Financial Stake in Dialysis?
Joint ventures between nephrologists and dialysis centers have expanded treatment. Critics ask: At what cost?
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America on Dialysis
Kidney disease affects millions of Americans, but corporate capture of dialysis, along with disparities in treatment and transplant access, mean that not everyone's journey is the same...
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Kidney Dialysis Is a Booming Business—Is It Also a Rigged One?
A new California law aims to curb what sponsors say is profiteering by dialysis centers. But are there any easy answers?
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These Drugs Might Prevent Severe COVID
Even with vaccines on the way, treatments are needed to prevent the disease from getting worse—and to be ready for COVID-25, COVID-37, and so on
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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Vaccine Is First to Win U.S. Authorization
The FDA issued the emergency use authorization for the vaccine late on Friday. And immunizations of health care workers and long-term care facility residents could begin within days...
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FDA Commissioner Says Vaccine Approval Process Will Be Transparent and Guided by Data
Stephen Hahn describes how the agency will evaluate vaccines for emergency authorization
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Who Is My Doctor? Some Hospital Patients Never Know
Anyone who’s been hospitalized has probably asked this question—and probably never found out
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Who Will Get COVID Vaccines First, and Who Will Have to Wait?
In the U.S., health workers come first. But for other groups, scientists and policy makers are weighing a mix of disease risks, logistics and ethics
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The COVID Cold Chain: How a Vaccine Will Get to You
A vaccine logistics expert explains how millions of frozen vials will be widely distributed
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Doing the Touchy Math on Who Should Get a COVID Vaccine First
Mathematicians model pandemic scenarios by plugging thorny ethical and logistical issues into calculations
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The Antibiotic Gamble
Paratek Pharmaceuticals made a life-saving drug and got it approved. So why is the company’s long-term survival still in question?
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Your Tears Might Save Your Life Someday
They could ultimately be used to find diseases the way blood tests do now—but cheaper and more easily
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For Billion-Dollar COVID Vaccines, Basic Government-Funded Science Laid the Groundwork
Much of the pioneering work on mRNA vaccines was done with government money, though drugmakers could walk away with big profits
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COVID Vaccine Excitement Builds as Moderna Reports Positive Result
Preliminary data show that the immunization is 94 percent effective and seems to prevent severe infections
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For COVID Drugs, Months of Frantic Development Lead to Few Outright Successes
There have been mixed results as researchers try to stop a disease they are still trying to understand
Public Health
An Emerging Tool for COVID Times: The Portable MRI
Bedside imaging holds vast potential as a diagnostic tool, especially during the pandemic
