Sentence examples for ckd from inspiring English sources
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Chronic kidney disease
ISA and other Nicaraguan sugar cane companies are supporting research into possible non-occupational causes – recently donating £430,000 for research into genetic and childhood links to CKD.
Western firms have therefore been scrambling to sign up local partners.In the Czech Republic, Lockheed has teamed with both CKD, a big engineering concern, and with the Rez nuclear-research institute.
In Nicaragua, the second-poorest country in the Americas after Haiti, CKD is officially recognised as an illness that can be caused by work.
But Dr Ben Caplin, a kidney specialist at University College London and part of a British team investigating CKD in Chichigalpa, told the Guardian: "The morally right thing to do is follow up patients with abnormal kidney function, if the company has the resources.
Outside the sugar plantations, there are very few jobs in Chichigalpa, so like many CKD sufferers Walter used a fake ID and went back to work cutting cane – this time in a "ghost team" for an ISA subcontractor.
The company quotes a review of scientific literature on CKD carried out in 2010 by Boston University to claim there is "no evidence whatsoever that current labour practices or chemicals used by ISA now or in the past are generally accepted causes of CKD".
This year, the CK-12 Foundation is to start offering tools that will allow high-school students to teach themselves.
One promising approach along these lines has been adopted by the CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit organisation that seeks to reduce the cost of teaching materials by using open-source methods.
She was appointed the brand's "face" and appeared in three global autumn advertising campaigns: for the signature Calvin Klein collection, ck Calvin Klein, and Calvin Klein Jeans.
After tonight's support – a short jazz trumpet solo – CK, wasted little time in bringing us joy through the painful existence of others.
The Prime Minister's official residence has become D wning Street, you can buy your books in W terst nes and eat Green & l ck's chocolate for the duration of National Blood Week.
