Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The legislation would qualify more medical professionals to provide home dialysis training and offer staff ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the American Kidney Fund (AKF) is hosting the third annual Dialysis at Home summit, a free, online event in which participants will hear from ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Kidney Fund (AKF) has partnered with Home Dialyzors United, a nonprofit advocating on behalf of the home dialyzor community, to host the ...

Animal-to-human transplants – or xenotransplantation – is raising hopes among patients who can’t obtain healthy organs from other humans. Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful ...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — When imagining the future of home dialysis in the United States, innovation and policy changes are required, according to a presenter at the Annual Dialysis Conference, here.

Fresenius Medical Care is partnering with hemodialysis patient Richard Amaro to educate El Pasoans about their options for dialysis, including home hemodialysis (HHD). On December 14 and 15, Amaro is ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dialyze Direct, the nation’s leading provider of home hemodialysis and physiologic dialysis services in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), announced today that the ...

Tradeoffs between overall survival and time at home suggested a more favorable risk-benefit profile of starting dialysis at an eGFR less than 12 mL/min/1.73 m 2 among patients aged 80 years or older ...

Once on HD, always on HD? Many ESRD patients are automatically started on hemodialysis due to late referral. “They get to us so late in the course of their disease,” Dr. Bray explained. “If a patient ...

Every week, thousands of people with kidney disease in the UK spend long hours in hospital receiving life-saving dialysis. For many, this means travelling to a kidney unit three times a week and ...