When an ice storm hit Texas, shutting down the water supply that so many dialysis patients depend on to live, many patients who perform hemodialysis at home never missed a treatment. As a mom of three ...

NAPPANEE, Ind. (WSBT) — It’s been Larry Cochrane’s nightly ritual for the past 10 months. “This is my dialysis machine. I use it 10 hours a night, 7 days a week. Everything is done while I sleep,” he ...

End stage kidney disease is a life-changing diagnosis, and among the many disruptions it brings is dialysis. The blood-cleansing process is complex, expensive, and time-consuming. It usually requires ...

The rate of home dialysis in patients with kidney failure in the United States — 7% each in Black and Latinx patients and 9% in White patients — is low compared with the "lofty" target of 80% for 2025 ...

In 2014, Amber Pettis felt nauseous and tired. She went to see her doctor because she thought she had a stomach bug. Instead, she learned she had kidney failure, a life-altering disease requiring long ...

In an era when just about every medical treatment that can be done at home is moving in that direction, only about 12% of patients receiving kidney dialysis do so at home, despite it being cheaper and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At our home dialysis clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, working on growth and sustainability of our ...

WALTHAM, Mass. and DENVER, March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) and DaVita Kidney Care today announced an expanded agreement to provide home dialysis ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In 1972, Congress passed legislation to fund the ESRD Program. The result was a shift in how and where dialysis ...