Word: kidney
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Black people are much less likely than white people to be referred for kidney transplants, a new Harvard Medical School (HMS) study has found...
...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...
...study also found that many doctors failed to inform black patients about the possibility of receiving a kidney from a family member instead of going on a wait-list...
Afraid not. Bad breath isn't an illness; it's merely a symptom of something else. In some cases, the something else really is an illness--diabetes, for example, or some kidney disorder or an infection of the sinuses or bronchial tubes or gums. Infections can usually be cured, and if you're suffering from an incurable one or from another serious condition, bad breath is the least of your problems...
...still have a difficult time recommending an Atkins-style, high-saturated-fat diet to my patients. Though the diet does provide a quick weight loss and is very satiating, I am concerned about its possible effects on people with serious heart, liver or kidney disease and cancer. As long as you are healthy, a high-fat diet is usually fine for a while. But after about a month, you should go off it. That's the problem. When people begin to go off the strictest form of the diet, they have to be extremely careful as they increase the amount...