Item, from Modern Healthcare magazine: Dialysis wastewater could be recycled for agricultural uses, saving dialysis centers money to boot. Researchers writing in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases say this is water pre-dialysis that is rejected by the reverse osmosis process, not contaminated post-dialysis. Researcher say the savings could ...

List-making, it's a life preserver for those suffering from CRS (''can't remember stuff'').  Lists are especially helpful in health care. However, here are high and low points. I'm on a bunch of really nifty listserves. One comes from kaisernetwork.org , a product of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Anybody can subscribe. The listserve is a ...

Flight delays are like hangovers. They fade over time, until the next sorry encounter. But filthy planes? That's borderline criminal. Not long ago, a traveler with infectious tuberculosis made headlines when he jetted internationally. That seemed a dangerous oddity, but planes start looking like full-time germ incubators when you ...