Success and Challenge in Dialysis Therapy

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Volume 347:2068-2070		December 19, 2002		Number 25

Success and Challenge in Dialysis Therapy

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The 2002 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research wasawarded to Willem J. Kolff and Belding H. Scribner for theirpioneering work in the development of hemodialysis.¹^,² As theLasker Foundation noted in announcing the award, the developmentof renal hemodialysis "changed kidney failure from a fatal toa treatable disease, prolonging the useful lives of millionsof patients." This year also marks the 30th anniversary of thepassage of Public Law 92-603, which extended disability provisionsin Medicare coverage to those with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)who, regardless of age, were "deemed to be disabled." As 2002nears . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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