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Advocacy for Better Dialysis
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Is your U.S. Representative a co-sponsor for Improving Access to Home Dialysis Act of 2024 (H.R. 8075)?
This bill if passed would require Medicare to pay for staff-assisted home dialysis for patients who are blind or have cognitive, neur... [Read More]
Posted 08/16/2024 -
Bill Would Expand Medigap Access for Dialysis Patients if Passed
H.R. 35, the Close the Medigap Act of 2023 was introduced in the House by Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-37) on January 9, 2023, and will die if... [Read More]
Posted 06/14/2024 -
Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV) Plans to Introduce the Improving Access to Home Dialysis Act
A home dialysis patient testified before the House Ways & Means Committee in support of this bill, which would require payment for st... [Read More]
Posted 04/12/2024
Home Dialysis in the News
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Baxter to Divest Vantive Kidney Care to the Carlyle Group for $3.8B
Pending regulatory approval, this transfer to a global investment company will take place in late 2024 or early 2025. Baxter will use... [Read More]
Posted 08/16/2024 -
Assisted Home HD in Qatar Avoids Ambulance Transport in Vulnerable Patients
Sponsored by the Ministry of Public Health and Hamad Medical Corporation, this approach has reduced hospitalizations, lowered costs, ... [Read More]
Posted 08/16/2024 -
Dialysis Amid the Rockets (A New Approach to Kidney Failure)
This blog by Rabbi Alan Abrams of Jerusalem discusses what it’s like to do PD in a war zone and how PD works for him and could be a... [Read More]
Posted 08/16/2024
Industry Updates
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Diality Moda-fix HD Machine Receives FDA 510(k) Approval
With integrated RO water treatment, the Moda-fix is now approved for acute care hospitals, post-acute care dialysis, and clinic dialy... [Read More]
Posted 08/16/2024 -
Death of Cannulation Expert, Educator and Home Dialysis Champion, Stuart Mott
On June 17, 2024, the kidney community lost another dialysis pioneer. ... [Read More]
Posted 07/12/2024 -
PD and Home HD Sessions and Posters from the 2024 NKF Spring Clinicals
Find live and on-demand sessions on home dialysis from this year’s conference in Long Beach, CA by searching the ... [Read More]
Posted 06/14/2024
Living Well with Home Treatments
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NKF’s Kidney Commute on Solo Home Hemodialysis
This 30-minute podcast includes a doctor, nurse, social worker, and patient shares information to address concerns and benefits of so... [Read More]
Posted 08/16/2024 -
Home Dialysis: A Talk from a Patient’s Perspective
This 20-minute video is by Clancy Mamu, a home dialysis patient who started a YouTube channel called Total Dialysis.... [Read More]
Posted 08/16/2024 -
Watch an Interview with Ashliee Shankle, Who is Living Fully with PD
Staff from Byonyks, a Pakistani device company, shares this 42-minute video interview with a PD cycler patient, wife, mother, cosmeto... [Read More]
Posted 08/16/2024
Pipeline Technology
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Kamal Shah of NephroPlus Discusses Dalysis Innovations
Learn about the WAK 3.0 for HD, Vicenza and AWAK for PD, wearable peritoneal dialysis, and bio-artificial kidneys in the pipeline.... [Read More]
Posted 08/16/2024 -
Global Wearable Artificial Kidney Market Expected to Grow
A market report expects the value of the global wearable artificial kidney market to be more than $9 billion in 2024 and to exce... [Read More]
Posted 07/12/2024 -
Byonyks X1: a New, Small, Portable APD Machine
Developed in Pakistan with U.S. R&D, an FDA application for the X1 was filed in Nov., 2023. Byonyks expects the X1 to be in patientsâ... [Read More]
Posted 06/14/2024