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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication in patients in intensive care. A new laboratory test called urine neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL) helps predict if patients will develop acute kidney injury, reports an upcoming study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).
One popular idea for lowering the nation's ballooning health care spending is to change the way insurers pay provider organizations for their care. Instead of paying a fee for each service rendered- a model that can encourage the unscrupulous use of more services even when the benefit is dubious, reformers suggest giving clinical practices a global yearly budget to care for a population of patients.
A new cornea may be the only way to prevent a patient going blind - but there is a shortage of donated corneas and the queue for transplantation is long. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have for the first time successfully cultivated stem cells on human corneas, which may in the long term remove the need for donators.
When a coronavirus-including SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19-infects someone, it hijacks the person's cells, co-opting their molecular machinery for its own survival and spread.
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