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Evaluating new efforts to revamp kidney care

July 26, 2019July 26, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dialysis, Dr. Kevin Furman Erickson, kidney disease, Transplant

Chronic kidney disease affects more than 30 million adults in the United States. Each year, 100,000 patients transition to the most advanced stage of kidney

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Barriers to employment for dialysis patients

January 19, 2018January 18, 2018 Clarice 0 Comments Dialysis, Dr. Kevin Furman Erickson, Employment, health policy, kidney disease, Renal Disease

Jobs are central to many of our political conversations. Measures like the unemployment rate are good indicators of the overall health of our economy, and

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The limits of compassion: Dialysis and the undocumented – A solution

February 10, 2017February 9, 2017 Clarice 3 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dialysis, Emergency Medicine, Javier Santiago, medical students, Narrative Medicine, policy, Undocumented Immigrants, Victoria Mitre

Editor’s note: This post is the second part of a two-part series. Read part one. Over the past half-century, significant legal roadblocks to providing healthcare services

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The limits of compassion: Dialysis and the undocumented – The problem

February 8, 2017February 16, 2018 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dialysis, Emergency Medicine, Javier Santiago, medical students, Narrative Medicine, policy, Undocumented Immigrants, Victoria Mitre

Editor’s note: This blog post is the first part of a two-part series. Mr. H and I shared stories in his hospital room on a

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From the Labs Image of the Month

From The Labs Image of the Month From the Labs features an image of the laboratory worm, Caenorhabditis elegans. Image credit: Dr. Tao Chen/Wang lab.

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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