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CDC (MMWR): Updated recommendations regarding hepatitis B infected health care personnel.
CDC: The previous recommendations have been updated to include the following changes: no prenotification of patients of a health-care provider's or student's HBV status; use of HBV DNA serum levels rather than hepatitis B e-antigen status to monitor infectivity; and, for those health-care professionals requiring oversight, specific suggestions for composition of expert review panels and threshold value of serum HBV DNA considered "safe" for practice (<1,000 IU/ml). These recommendations also explicitly address the issue of medical and dental students who are discovered to have chronic HBV infection. For most chronically HBV-infected providers and students who conform to current standards for infection control, HBV infection status alone does not require any curtailing of their practices or supervised learning experiences.

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Home dialysis conference to be held in October of 2012 in Baltimore.
Home Dialyzors United: Here’s your chance to join the home team! Home Dialyzors United (formerly NxStageUsers) is proud to organize our third annual conference and meetup from October 7 – 10, 2012 at the Best Western Plus Hotel & Conference Center in Baltimore, Maryland. You won’t want to miss this year’s HDU conference in exciting Baltimore. Now is the time to plan, get you hotel discounts, and be ready to experience the liberating "high" that past conference attendees talk about after a few days with THE most positive-thinking, proactive people, who just happen to have kidney disease. This Meet Up and Conference is a mind-changer!

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Kidney broker sentenced to prison as donor recalls doubts.
Bloomberg: In the first criminal organ-trafficking case in the U.S., Quick took the witness stand at the sentencing of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn, New York, man who pleaded guilty to brokering black-market sales of human kidneys to three Americans. After hearing Quick’s account of how Rosenbaum paid him $25,000 for a kidney, U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson sentenced Rosenbaum to 2 1/2 years in prison.

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Cucurmin reduces incidence of type 2 diabetes in randomized control trial.
Medical Xpress: After nine months the researchers found that 16.4 percent of the placebo group and none of the curcumin group were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Curcumin treatment was associated with significantly improved ?-cell function, with higher homeostasis model assessment-? and lower C-peptide levels.

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Chloramine - a concern not only for dialysis units but also for aquarium owners.
Tulsa World: Chloramine-treated water is safe for people, but fish owners will need to buy new neutralizing agents because traditional cleaners remove only chlorine from water, said Scott Kosciolek, owner of Premier Aquatics. Fish in garden ponds may be at the greatest risk because some owners add water to their ponds from a hose.

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