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End Game is a 2018 American short documentary film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman [1] about terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital meeting medical practitioners seeking to change the perception around life and death. [2] [3] [4] The film was executive produced by Steven Ungerleider and Shoshana R. Ungerleider. [5] It was ...
Schematic of semipermeable membrane during hemodialysis, where blood is red, dialysing fluid is blue, and the membrane is yellow. Kidney dialysis (from Greek διάλυσις, dialysis, 'dissolution'; from διά, dia, 'through', and λύσις, lysis, 'loosening or splitting') is the process of removing excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer ...
Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine and urea and free water from the blood when the kidneys are in a state of kidney failure.
A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a ...
The "Garden State" has the fifth-longest life expectancy in the US, according to the CDC data. In its 2023 American Community Survey one-year estimates, the Census Bureau said 92.8% of residents ...
Renal replacement therapy includes dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis), hemofiltration, and hemodiafiltration, which are various ways of filtration of blood with or without machines. Renal replacement therapy also includes kidney transplantation , which is the ultimate form of replacement in that the old kidney is replaced by a donor ...
Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday on Oct. 1 is a reminder of the record-setting life he's lived. Though he is the longest-living president by a long shot, a few other leaders enjoyed long lives after ...
Guinness World Records from its inception in 1955, began maintaining a list of the verified oldest people. [5] It developed into a list of all supercentenarians whose lifespan had been verified by at least three documents, in a standardized process, according to the norms of modern longevity research.