Five of Pfizer’s drugs will cost less for Medicare recipients starting next month as part of President Joe Biden’s plan to lower prescription drug cost.
Sodium bicarbonate to correct metabolic acidosis in kidney transplant is unnecessary and elimination could reduce pill count. The new finding fills an important information gap, say editorialists.
All in all, [recent] studies, along with ours, call into question the long-held belief that undocumented immigrants have worse [kidney] transplant outcomes, say the authors of a new study.
Low chloride, balanced-crystalloid IV fluid led to significantly fewer delayed graft function events compared with saline in a multicenter trial of patients getting a deceased-donor kidney transplant.
Two Canadian provinces passed “deemed consent” laws that require individuals to opt out of deceased organ donation, provoking mixed reactions and concerns.