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Policywise

Evaluating new efforts to revamp kidney care

July 26, 2019 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, 2018 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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Healthcare market consolidation: What the dialysis industry tells us

December 6, 2016 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Dr. Kevin Furman Erickson,  Economics,  ethics,  health policy

There’s an American aversion to anti-competitive market practices. A capitalist society assumes that competition means more innovation, more choices, and lower prices, and that market

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From the Labs: Image of the Month

Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNiMWHUhbc

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