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Dialysis & CKD Blog Report 12/24

Dec 24, 2009
By Miriam Lippel Blum Here are the CKD related blogs updated since my last report on 12/21. If you have or know of a blog that should be on the list let Bill know. Comments in parentheses are my reactions or opinions....

Optimal Dialysis: Are we losing the Battle in America?

Dec 24, 2009
By Peter Laird, MD A little over a week ago I had my home dialysis monthly check-in with a nephrologist that I was meeting  for the first time.  I found him very knowledgeable and supportive of alternative dialysis strategies including the NxStage...

Dialysis & CKD Blog Report 12/21

Dec 21, 2009
By Miriam Lippel Blum Here are the CKD related blogs updated since my last report on 12/18. If you have or know of a blog that should be on the list let Bill know. Comments in parentheses are my reactions or opinions. Dialysis from...

Senate's Health Reform Manager Amendment: No Immunosuppressant Drug Coverage, GAO to Study Including Oral Drugs in PPS

Dec 19, 2009
By Bill Peckham Ezra Klein reports that today Senate majority leader: Reid released "the Manager's amendment (pdf)," a single piece of legislation that contains hundreds of amendments within it. This way, there is one big vote changing the...

Best PPS comment, nonDialyzor catergory

Dec 19, 2009
By Bill Peckham No new PPS comments were posted today (you can view the comments here or download the continuously updated Excel file), but I am expecting at least a few more. I haven't seen one from KCC or from FMC, I expect they'll be posted...


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