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Kidney Transplant Disparities Persist With Intellectual, Developmental Disability

(MedPage Today) -- Despite anti-discrimination laws, patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) were significantly less likely to be evaluated for or receive a kidney transplant, a Medicare...

Kidney Transplant Disparities Persist With Intellectual, Developmental Disability

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Diverted military morphine raises health fears for North Korean officer’s wife

A North Korean army officer has spent years diverting morphine meant for military medical facilities to his wife. A source inside the military told Daily NK recently that her health has since raised…

  • North Korean officer diverted morphine for wife's use over years.
  • Wife's health deteriorated visibly, lost weight, changed leg shape.
  • Diversion raises health fears due to weak military medical controls.

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