Another recall; same issue as with Tablo. We're on a roll today.

Fresenius Medical Care Recalls Stay-Safe Catheter Extension Sets and Stay-Safe/Luer Lock Adapter for Risk of Patient Exposure to Higher Than Allowable Levels of Toxic Compound NDL-PCBA
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'Peroxide-cured silicone tubing in the machines’ hydraulics and dialysate lines caused the unsafe NDL-PCBAs levels.'

FDA labels Outset Medical recall of Tablo hemodialysis system as Class I
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This study used a two-pool kinetic model of beta-2-microglobulin to yield values of reduction ratio and pre-dialysis serum concentration that were consistent with measured values with various hemodiafiltration and hemodialysis treatment regimens bit.ly/CJASN0461

Of course, you can’t prove that. 😂

“Canada has the best health care': Markham man receives kidney transplant at age 87 pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/art…

“But every dairy that I've worked with has – with the exception of one – had sick human beings at the same time they had sick cows.”

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Amazing.

Too Ill for Typical Transplants, Woman Gets a Pig Kidney and Heart Pump Instead medpagetoday.com/transplantatio…

It is sad that Arlington Park was destroyed for… leverage?

FIRST WOLVES PLAYER TO WIN SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR. 👏

FTC announces rule banning #noncompetes : bit.ly/4daBHsY /1

The Biden administration mandated minimum staffing levels for nursing homes. They are higher than many facilities’ current payrolls, but not as high as advocates sought.

Here's what you need to know, reported by Jordan Rau. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/n…

Rich pipeline of alternative approaches to safely block MR axis being investigated in heart & kidney disease

🔥 K+ lowering therapies
🔥 Nonsteroidal MRAs
🔥 MR modulators
🔥 Aldosterone synthase inhibitors

👀 this rapidly changing space—upcoming HF RCTs to likely report '24 👇🏾

AKI and Subsequent Kidney Failure With Replacement Therapy Incidence in Older Adults With Advanced CKD: A Cohort Study of United States Veterans

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A unique story about generous people.
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This is a nice insight from ANZ, observational as it may be. I myself tend to be suspicious that maximizing HD hours after age 75 has great value. (Not to say that higher frequency is less useful!)

Greater hemodialysis exposure (“quotidian hemodialysis”) has different mortality

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If I were hypervigilant about antitrust enforcement, this might not be the first thing that I would worry about.

I don’t know that I would call Saint Olaf an elite college, at least in my time, but I valued attending a college of the church. That cannot be replicated at a state school.

Week-old news, but sharing ICYMI.

KFF Survey of Medicaid Unwinding - Findings kff.org/b5d77a3/