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Ambulatory Services taps Morgan Stanley to explore sale-sources
ReutersBy Soyoung Kim and Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - Ambulatory Services of America Inc, a U.S. operator of healthcare facilities controlled by private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg LLC, has appointed Morgan Stanley to explore a sale,...Tags: Radiation Therapy, Care Group Incorporated, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company
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Race and geography may influence late-stage kidney care
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - At the end of life, black kidney disease patients are more likely than white patients to continue intensive dialysis instead of choosing hospice care, according to a new study. Researchers also found that racial differences in...Tags: Palliative Care, University of Washington, Rutgers University, Health and Safety at School, Health Treatments
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Charges filed in Highland Park crash that killed medical van driver, 2 dialysis patients
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — A 30-year-old man has been charged in a Detroit-area crash that killed the driver of a medical transport van and two patients heading for dialysis treatments. Jeremy Yancey of Macomb County's Chesterfield Township was...Tags: Prosecution, Motorvehicle Accidents, Accidental Death, Transportation Accidents
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New Kidney Center helps those at risk
South Bend TribuneMISHAWAKA -- Nephrologists traditionally are brought in to care for patients who are suffering from chronic or end-stage kidney disease and approaching the need for dialysis. But two doctors at the Memorial Kidney & Hypertension Center want to intervene...Tags: Diabetes, Kidney Disease, Health Insurance, Diseases and Illnesses, Government Health Care
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Organs needed: You could save a life
PETOSKEY — It's a hard subject for Tina Stead to talk about -- how her family's life changed in what seemed like an instant. Tina, 32, and her husband Mike, 31, have been together for 12 years. The Boyne City couple has three children -- sons,...
Tags: Heart Failure, Diabetes, Stroke, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Heart Transplants
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Letters: Medicare and Amgen
Re "Remove Medicare's straitjacket," Opinion, March 29 Art Kellerman misunderstands why Congress delayed inclusion of oral-only drugs in the Medicare payment bundle for dialysis services. It wasn't to give Amgen and other drug makers a major windfall;...Tags: U.S. Congress, Amgen Inc., Government Health Care, Medicare, Health and Medical Professionals
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Should seniors qualify as living donors?
Robert Brown was healthy, willing and a good match: So why not give a kidney to his wife, who otherwise would need dialysis? There was just one potential obstacle: Brown was 74, an age once unthinkable for a kidney donor. For this retired psychologist...
Tags: Kidney Disease, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Mayo Clinic, Diseases and Illnesses, General Practitioners
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Grandmother, grandson charged in killing of grandfather
Tribune reportersA 64-year-old woman has been charged along with her grandson in the slaying of her 72-year-old husband, who was killed on his way to dialysis treatment, police said. The woman and her grandson then used the slain man's money to buy a car, home...Tags: Non-durable Goods Industry, Firearms, Respiratory Disease, Prosecution, Shootings
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Prosecutor: Teen killed grandfather in robbery, used money for tattoos
Tribune reportersBail was denied today for a 19-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his grandfather as the older man left his home for an early-morning dialysis appointment earlier this month. William D. Strickland, of the 400 block of East 95th Street, shot his...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Firearms, Prosecution, Murder, Theft
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Remove Medicare's straitjacket
Now that the budget "sequester" is in effect, Congress is shifting its attention to entitlement reform. There's simply no way to achieve long-term reductions in federal spending without touching the big health programs, particularly Medicare. Although...
Tags: Bevacizumab (drug), U.S. Congress, Healthcare Industry, Amgen Inc., Macular Degeneration
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Jan Chapin, social worker
Jan Chapin, a social worker who enjoyed the arts and sports, died March 14 from metastatic melanoma at her Cockeysville home. She was 65.
The daughter of a career Army officer and a homemaker, the former Elizabeth Jan Iaderosa, who was known as Jan,...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Skin Cancer, Mount Vernon
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Roanoke Woman Waits for Phone Call To Save Her Life
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterOne Roanoke woman keeps her cell phone at her side always. The reason? She's waiting for a call that could save her life. To understand this woman's story you have to go back several years to when 41 year old Jenny Mays DeLorenzo was just 17 and a...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Cell Phones
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