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"Using his forty years of experience and knowledge in medical research and his own journey with kidney failure, the author provides the latest information from the scientific literature on kidney diseases and treatment. He provides patients with a road map to navigate the choices and difficulties involved with having kidney disease, from diagnosis to transplant, to help them make informed choices from a patient's point of view. For the second edition,...
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"It was a story that couldn't possibly be true: identical twins, separated at birth. Anna Drury wouldn't have believed it, but the woman standing before her was physically alike her in every way, and held in her hands a keepsake baby bracelet, the same as Anna had. How could it be? Anna, with her tall, strong husband and two adorable children, grew up loved and secure, and she freely opens her heart to others, so she embraces the idea of her new-found...
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"Give your clients a complete overview of kidney disease in cats with this easy-to-use video series. Animations help explain how kidney disease develops and make it easy for clients to learn how to manage kidney disease through subcutaneous fluids, therapeutic diets, and medications"--Publisher's Web site
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A revolutionary program that can indefinitely postpone the need for dialysis. The centerpiece of Coping with Kidney Disease is Dr. Walser's revolutionary 12-step program for avoiding dialysis. Based on treatments he has pioneered with his own patients at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the program calls for a supplemented low-protein diet supported by treatments to control blood pressure and correct high cholesterol. So effective...
8) Serena says
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"After her best friend, JC, has a kidney transplant, Serena feels that they are falling out of touch, especially as JC makes a new best friend in the hospital"--
11) Something Noble
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In order to save her son's life, a single mom must try to convince a selfish drug dealer to donate one of his kidneys to his half-brother.
15) The secret
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Mary has been nursing a secret. Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear. Beth is searching for answers. She has never known the truth about her parentage, but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs. When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She...