Word: transplant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study, one of many recent efforts to investigate the racial health care gap, found that white people with kidney failure were about 4 percent more likely to want a transplant than are black people. But black people were more than 20 percent less likely to be referred for evaluation and placement on a transplant wait-list...
HCFA, the federal agency that runs Medicare, Medicaid and various children's health programs, covers most dialysis and transplant costs for patients of all ages who lack private insurance...
...pays for 80 percent of dialysis costs, which are about $48,000 a year. It generally funds more than that proportion of transplant costs, which average...
...same issue of the journal, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers published a study on kidney transplants that found that patients at for-profit dialysis centers are less likely to get on transplant wait-lists than those at not-for-profit centers...
...couple of angioplasties (1998). Last year, when I began having symptoms again, my choices--with further bypass impossible--were 1) to treat the trouble with continued medication (beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, aspirin, furosemide and so on), hoping, further down the line, for a heart transplant; or 2) to try to sign up for one of the new, experimental operations (gene therapy or laser therapy) designed to encourage the growth of new blood vessels in the heart...