31.   Intravenous feeding, dialysis machines and a last-ditch treatment that completely replaced her poisoned plasma kept her alive.

32.   Kamen has spent years developing the likes of a portable dialysis machine, a multipurpose medical irrigation pump, and an intravascular stent.

33.   Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked whether a hospital, trying to allocate a scarce resource, could choose to deny homosexuals access to a kidney dialysis machine.

34.   Legal fees started piling up, even as huge lease payments for dialysis machines came due.

35.   Recipients, aided by powerful anti-rejection drugs, enjoy lives free from waiting lists and dialysis machines.

36.   Scribner designed and, with biomedical engineer Wayne Quinton, built a shunt connection that allowed easy, repeated connections to the kidney dialysis machine.

37.   She still has her down days and remains on a dialysis machine until her new kidney gets stronger.

38.   Smaller hospitals also may not be ready for possible shutdowns of such critical devices as dialysis machines.

39.   Some dialysis machines and defibrillators seized up.

40.   Susan Stephens watched helplessly as her rambunctious young son went from frolicking with his English mastiff, Tank ,to carting around an unwieldy dialysis machine.