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Dear Doctors: A good friend of our family is on the kidney transplant list and is having hemodialysis. Can you please explain what that entails? My wife and I want to help, but we don’t want to bother him with a lot of questions.

Dear Reader: The kidneys have several important jobs in maintaining health and well-being. Perhaps the best known is to filter blood as it circulates through the body. Hea…

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