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...manifestation of the traveling principle," writes Bardon, who died in May 2003, in a recently published history of the movement (see box, next page). These days their vehicle for survival is the dialysis machine. Because of poverty and poor diet, the Pintupi have one of the highest rates of kidney failure in the country. "Our rates of dialysis are 40 times the national average," says Dr. Paul Rivalland, who started as a general practitioner in Kintore 20 years ago. End-stage renal disease depletes the body's ability to filter impurities in the blood and fight off infections. But while...
High-risk cases are those involving patients who suffer from diseases like cystic fibrosis, kidney disease, lung problems, heart disease, cancer, or who have recently finished being treated for such conditions...
When a person develops the disease, his or her body becomes resistant to insulin, preventing cells from processing the sugars they depend on for energy. This leads to high blood sugar levels, which can result in heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness and the amputation of limbs...
Most Americans are not getting annual scans--and now presumably even fewer will. Although full-body scans may still make sense for some patients, whatever information your doctor needs can usually be obtained by less extensive X rays--scanning just the kidney, for example, if what you are looking for is kidney cancer. Minimal scanning will also cut down on the chances that you'll find a growth that requires more invasive testing but turns out--and it usually does--to be perfectly benign...
...small, darkened room filled with computer screens and telephone switchboards, Dr. Robert Baron listens intently as a 33-year-old man's medical symptoms are described. The man, who had briefly passed out, is in severe pain from his kidney area and is getting oxygen. The doctor sits across the hall from the emergency room at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., but his patient is a little farther away: on an airplane 30,000 ft. over the Middle East. Yet within minutes, Baron has diagnosed a kidney stone, suggested preliminary treatment and arranged for medical personnel...