1.   For the next few months, Wolford put together his new dialysis company, called West Coast Medical Specialties.

2.   Gambro AB, a Swedish medical equipment company, said it acquired all of the shares in dialysis company American Outpatient Services Corp.

3.   Hampers, who still runs National Medical and is a Grace executive vice president and director, cited irreconcilable differences between the Waltham, Mass. dialysis company and Grace.

4.   Other dialysis companies have adopted similar compensation arrangements over the years, and these have harmed the industry, some medical experts contend.

5.   Other dialysis companies that would be affected by an Epogen cut include Fresenius AG of Bad Homburg, Germany and Incentive AB of Stockholm, Sweden.

6.   Possible takeover candidates include several publicly traded dialysis companies, analysts said.

7.   Roland, whose profit-sharing deal set off the original battle, decided to form his own dialysis company.

8.   The doctors were so angry that they began considering working with a competing dialysis company.

9.   This week, Vivra Inc., a smaller, California-based dialysis company, made overtures for a possible merger with National Medical Care.

10.   Vivra, a California-based dialysis company, may also be in the running, according to shareholders.