Word: kidney
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Clinically, the hospital is especially noted for its neonatal intensive care unit (the largest and busiest in the state, it says); its burn care unit and its heart, lung, kidney and bone marrow transplant units...
...first independent physical therapy department in 1914 and culturing the polio virus in 1949. Today, its staff is dealing with urban violence as it affects children's public health, operating one of the world's largest centers for cystic fibrosis research and treatment and running regional centers for kidney and bone marrow transplants...
...showed both the depth of Leakey's courage and the strength of his commitment to saving African wildlife. Hour after hour, he lay in pain in a Nairobi hospital that could not adequately deal with the infections he developed. Septicemia posed a mortal risk, as he had only one kidney (transplanted from his brother years ago after both kidneys failed). But for 10 days he refused to leave Kenya to receive better treatment. Ignoring pleas from friends and family, he decided he had to stay in Nairobi to oversee the receipt of part of a $155 million conservation aid package...
Leakey finally agreed to be evacuated when British bone specialist Christopher Colton helped convince him that his life was in danger. As it is, he may yet lose part of his left leg and his right foot. Without health insurance because of his kidney problems, he faces medical bills that may mount...
...uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting the ability of insurance companies to turn down applicants because of a "pre-existing condition" (insurance jargon meaning they already have an ailment that is expensive to treat, perhaps kidney disease or multiple sclerosis). And for everybody -- patients, taxpayers, state officials, business executives -- the reforms promise, eventually at least, a slowdown in the relentless rise of medical costs that keeps kiting up insurance premiums and patients' bills and biting into state budgets and company profits...