Word: uremia
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...Guard Republican Congressman and top G.O.P. member of the Rules Committee, who at 26 started out as Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, went on to Capitol Hill in 1939 where he waged a desk-thumping campaign against Big Government from the New Deal through the Great Society; of uremia; in Bethesda...
Died. Dr. Martin Buber, 87, renowned Jewish philosopher, theologian and poet; of uremia followed by a stroke; in Jerusalem (see RELIGION...
...daddy of rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s, making as much as $200,000 a year on radio and TV until he was caught accepting some $30,000 in record-company payola in 1959, got a six months' suspended sentence and faded from earshot; of uremia; in Palm Springs, Calif...
When the kidneys fail to work and there is no hope of starting them up again, the resulting uremia is fatal in about three weeks. A hospital would seem to be the only place where victims could get adequate care. Hundreds of hospitals are equipped with artificial kidneys which are costly to install, even more costly to operate. For each of the 100 U.S. patients who regularly get lengthy treatments, usually twice a week, the cost is $10,000 a year. But now the artificial kidney is moving out of the hospital, into the home. It promises to cut costs...
...four to six hours, while the lawyer can doze or read briefs, the blood from his forearm artery flows through the plastic coils in the bath. Metabolic poisons that should have been excreted in his urine have accumulated in his blood. (Uremia patients urinate, but pass only a small volume of weak, watery liquid.) In the artificial kidney, the poisons are leached out of the blood through the walls of the cellophane tubing and into the chemical bath...