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Dialysis is a type of renal replacement therapy (RRT) that filters waste products and removes excess fluid from the blood when someone's kidneys stop working sufficiently. It can be performed in a hospital, dialysis center, or at home. To survive beyond a few weeks or months, people with stage 5...

The Role of Dialysis in Kidney Treatment

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Black Americans are less likely to receive kidney transplants despite being more likely to need them.

Kidneys Donated By Black Americans More Likely To Be Thrown Away: Report

Louisiana State

CBS News

At 24 years old, Danielle Perea was newly enrolled in a clinical lab science master's program, living with her boyfriend in Louisiana, and generally enjoying her life — until one day, a stomachache led to her sitting in an area hospital, being told she had just hours left to live. Just a few days into her program, Perea woke with a "serious stomachache" that she first mistook for food poisoning, but when she used the bathroom she passed "frothy blood" that made her decide to go to the emergency room at a hospital she did not name because of pending litigation....

After she was given 24 hours to live, a rare transplant saved her life

IFLScience

In some cases, the change can be temporary.

In Certain Rare Circumstances Your Blood Type Can Change

What doctors wish patients knew about kidney stones. Sharp pain that radiates from your back can cause a moment of panic. But what may seem like an ordinary backache could be a telltale sign of a kidney stone, which is an agonizing condition affecting 1 million people in the U.S. each year. These tiny, crystalline deposits often form silently in the kidneys, waiting to make their painful debut. This sudden onset of symptoms can transform daily routines into urgent medical concerns, highlighting the importance of understanding and addressing kidney stones.

What doctors wish patients knew about kidney stones

The Independent

A cholesterol-lowering drug may slow the progression of eye disease in people with diabetes, new research suggests.Diabetes can cause damage to the small blood vessels at the back of the eye, a condition called diabetic retinopathy which is among the top five causes of sight loss across the world.The new findings suggest that a drug, called fenofibrate, which has been used to lower cholesterol for more than 30 years might be able to reduce the risk of progression by up to 27%.We’re excited by the positive results from this major trial of a new treatment to slow progression of eye...

Cholesterol drug ‘slows progression of eye disease in people with diabetes’

NBC News

As Covid cases continue to rise this summer, doctors are urging people to get tested if they’re feeling sick as it’s hard to diagnose symptoms alone. NBC News’ Erika Edwards reports on the latest Covid advice from doctors and the increase in new strains and mutations.

Doctors urge people to get tested amid a summer Covid wave

SurvivorNet

Country music singer-songwriter Mark Chesnutt, 60, has revealed he's "recovering" well with the support of his family after undergoing a life-saving quadruple bypass. Chesnutt, known for his iconic hits like "Brother Jukebox" and "Too Cold at Home," needed emergency quadruple bypass surgery after experiencing a heart issue. This specific type of surgery, is also known as a Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), and it's a procedure that's done to treat coronary artery disease.

Country Music Legend Mark Chesnutt, 60, Is ‘Recovering Comfortably’ With His Family After Undergoing Emergency Quadruple Bypass Surgery— The Power of Support

Systemic therapy and active surveillance can be viable options for patients with TGCT, as one expert explained. Sydney Stern has undergone six surgeries for TGCT, or tenosynovial giant cell tumors. “So, we’ll say [that’s] five too many, maybe,” she told CURE®. Stern, director of Giant...

‘You Have More Options’: Treatment Beyond Surgery for TGCT

Karen Thrussell, a mom of two from Melbourne, Australia, was 48 years old when she was diagnosed with a rare sarcoma that had been growing in her abdomen for around 10 years, according to her doctors, who at first thought her belly fat was from menopause.

Mom of Two’s Swollen Belly & Night Sweats Dismissed as Menopause Before Doctors Find Rare Sarcoma, Remove 10-Pound Tumor Growing for 10 Years

UPI News

In a move to improve kidney transplant equity, a new policy will remove a question about race from the Kidney Donor Profile Index because it "dishonors African American/Black donors."

Race-based question removed from Kidney Donor Profile Index to improve transplant equity

Newark, NJ

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Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

New York City, NY

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The e-Texan

New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

NewsOne

Kidneys donated by Black people are discarded at higher rates because the algorithm downgrades their quality based on the donor’s race.
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Kidneys Donated By Black People Are Discarded At Higher Rates Due To Flawed System

Saint Johns County, FL

Hastings, FL

Jacksonville Today

Eight people have been arrested on drug charges stemming from an undercover investigation at a convenience store in Hastings, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

8 arrested in Hastings drug and gambling bust

A woman is battling a terminal cervical cancer diagnosis after an NHS trust misdiagnosed her test results as constipation several times.Sarah Roch, a 43-year-old mother of two from Plymouth, faced nine years of missed opportunities from 2010 by Derriford Hospital and only discovered she had cervical cancer after a voluntary hysterectomy in 2019. By the time she was diagnosed - which occurred by accident following her hysterectomy - Ms Roch was told she had late-stage cervical cancer.Ms Roch, who worked at the same hospital which misdiagnosed her, has had to give up her job to have chemotherapy three times a...

Mother of two faces terminal cancer after nearly 10 years of misdiagnosis by the NHS

Gloucester County, NJ

Franklinville, NJ

FRANKLINVILLE, N.J. -A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man admitted today that he defrauded the government of more than $200,000 in Social Security and Medicaid benefits, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Man Guilty of $200K Social Security & Medicaid Fraud

New variants of Covid have started to spread across the UK. If you have been suffering with a stubborn cough or sore throat recently that just won’t go away, you may have caught one of these new strains of Covid named N FLiRT and LB.1.Many of us know a friend or family member who has come down with nasty cold-like symptoms over the last few weeks, and talk about the resurgence of Covid has started circulating.“Increased travel and big events such as festivals often result in crowded settings where the virus can spread more easily, and there are no longer...

New FLiRT Covid variant spreading across the UK as doctors issue summer warning

Boston, MA

Vanishing Georgia

One of the oldest churches in Boston, Trinity Missionary Baptist is a Freedmen’s congregation established in 1867. The present structure, likely dating to the early 1900s, is a typical uneven-steeple style common among Black churches at the time. It was originally a frame structure before the addition of the brick veneer. Boston Historic District, National […]

Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, Boston

Connecticut Public

The daughter of renowned Canadian author Alice Munro has revealed that she suffered sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather and that her mother, a Nobel Prize winner, turned a blind eye to it. In an op-ed published Sunday in the Toronto Star, Andrea Skinner wrote that Munro’s husband...

Alice Munro's daughter alleges mother stayed with her abusive stepfather

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Doctors try a controversial technique to reduce the transplant organ shortage

It’s late on a Friday afternoon at the Nashville International Airport when Dr. Marty Sellers hops out of a van and strides towards a small private...

Doctors try a controversial technique to reduce the transplant organ shortage

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