NxStageUsers Meet up and Conference in Las
Vegas Currently Scheduled for Week of October 10, 2010.
*Note* This is not limited to just group members. Any Caregiver or Dialyzor can attend....
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LAWRENCE, Mass., July 19, 2010 /PRNewswire vi COMTEX/ -- NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced that it signed a five-year distribution agreement with Spindial S.p.A., a distributor of renal care products, for the promotion, sale, delivery and service of the NxStage System One(TM) and certain of the Company's in-center products in Italy.
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Bill Peckham and Others To Dialyze on Remote Oregon River during 4-Day Whitewater Rafting Trip
Next Monday, July 19th, I and two other dialyzors from the cruise (Jim and Dan), will depart on a three night, 4-Day Wilderness Lodge Trip organized through Rogue Wilderness Adventures. We'll be bringing two cyclers with us down the Rogue, along with supplies for five hemodialysis treatments. At night we'll be staying at lodges accessible only by river - we've sent some of our supplies ahead. The generators only run until 10PM so I'll be switching to 3 hour runs while I'm on the river.
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East Lansing man on dialysis will take 225-mile canoe trip
The East Lansing resident is planning a trip in celebration, but "The Riverdude" - a nickname he picked up during his work as a watershed management consultant - won't be going on just any old holiday.
Ditschman will be joining the Grand River Expedition, which departs from Michigan Center on July 14, the beginning of a 12-day canoe voyage to where the Grand River empties into Lake Michigan at Grand Haven.
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Redsense Safety Device Approved For Use During Home Hemodialysis
Redsense Medical announced that the Redsense alarm has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use during home hemodialysis. The alarm has been approved in the clinical setting since 2007..
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Redsense Medical
5-18-2010
Nephrology News & Issues
Finding Freedom on a Cruise: by Rich Berkowitz
Drug And Device Companies Will Now Have To Report Payments
Drug and device companies will soon have to report payments to physicians in a national database, thanks to a little noted section of the health care reform bill called the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
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NxStage Announces New FREEDOM Data Showing the Positive Impact of its Daily Home Hemodialysis
Dan Larrabee Interviewed by Local KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, about Post Health Care Reform - How Will It Affect Medicare?
NxStageUsers Member Talks About Her NxStage Machine on "The Doctors" TV Show
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NxStage Launches In:
Hawaii
Denmark
Dubai
Finland
Saudi Arabia
Sweden
UK
Netherlands
Can Canada be next?
2010 Freedom Cruise - in the News
Pat and Ralph were featured in a Fox News 23 segment on NxStage and the upcoming cruise. You’ll need to click on Dialysis Cruise: Gift of Freedom on the left hand side.
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Understanding the Nephrologist Shortage
Is There a Nephrologist in the House?
Judie Bizzozero
09/30/2009
AN ESTIMATED 31 MILLION AMERICANS— 16 percent of the population—have a form of CKD and 506,000 Americans are being treated for ESRD. Unfortunately, the nephrologist population isn’t keeping pace with the exploding CKD and dialysis patient population. |
The Numbers Game
There is a gap between the rate of growth of ESRD patients and nephrologists, said Mark E. Mazak, vice president, DaVita Practice Strategy Group. He added that the number of ESRD patients is increasing 5.8 percent each year, whereas the number of nephrologists is “generously estimated” to be increasing about 3 percent each year.
According to Martin Osinski, president of NephrologyUSA and past president of the National Association of Physician Recruiters, the projected increase in the number of CKD and ESRD patients will have a big affect on the quality of care a patient receives because, while there is a small increase in the overall number of nephrologists, the numbers are not keeping up with the growth in CKD and ESRD. This means physicians will be stretched and not as available to patients when needed. “I think you are going to see more forced dependency on extenders,” he said. “As the physicians are overstretched the issue of maintaining a high quality of care becomes a concern.”
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