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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

State Sen. Cristina Castro and Mayor William "Bill" McLeod joined health care leaders and staff of Alden Poplar Creek Rehabilitation and Health Care Center to celebrate the grand opening of its ...

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 ...

Durham, NC - For-profit dialysis units achieve benchmarks of care at a greater rate than not-for-profit units but, paradoxically, have higher mortality rates, a new study reports [ 1]. These findings, ...

Justin Pham had dropped 40 pounds without trying. The 29-year-old e-commerce manager was sneaking naps at work, barely eating, and gasping for breath walking from his car to the office. Even his urine ...

When Pflugerville, Texas, resident Melissa Bensouda gave birth to her third child in 2002 at age 27, she dreamed of dressing her baby in cute outfits and documenting all the usual first-year ...

A groundbreaking assisted home hemodialysis program – the first of its kind in Durham Region – has been launched by Lakeridge ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — Inside the dialysis unit at ...