Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I found out that Hsing-Hsing, suffering from kidney disease, was euthanized at the zoo Sunday, I was sad. When you are five years old and go to the zoo and see a big, black-and-white fuzzy bear, you don't think Nixon. You don't think China. You think cute. And you think forever...
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) officials announced last week that they will step up enforcement of existing rules against racial bias in kidney transplants...
...about a decade, studies have found racial discrepancies in the treatment of kidney failure, heart disease, arthritis, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses...
...researchers looked at kidney transplants in part because the HCFA's program makes money less of an issue for patients who do not have their own insurance, Ayanian said...
...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...