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Advocacy for Better Dialysis
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ADC Keynote Speaker Skeptical that Executive Order Goals Will be Met Via Policy
Brent W. Miller, MD, does not believe that policy goals with carrots and sticks will get us to 80% of new ESRD patients to home dialy... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020 -
Tips on How to Advocate
Learn 20 terrific advocacy tips to help patients make their voices heard in 2020 and fight for their rights from the Chronic Disease ... [Read More]
Posted 02/19/2020 -
California Dialysis Cost-savings Bill Temporarily Halted
A recent court decision placed an injunction on implementing HB 290 into law due to potential risks to 3,700 patients. The law would ... [Read More]
Posted 01/09/2020
Home Dialysis in the News
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Large Providers are Growing Home Therapies
In a reversal of a decades-long trend, the ten largest U.S. dialysis providers started 35% of incident patients on a home option—PD... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020 -
To Buttonhole or Not to Buttonhole
A Fresenius poster at the Annual Dialysis Conference looked at the frequency of bloodstream infections (BSIs) among home HD patients ... [Read More]
Posted 02/19/2020 -
Volume Overload Affects PD Technique Failure
Patients who began PD with fluid overload had a higher risk of technique failure in the next year than those who did not, finds a new... [Read More]
Posted 01/09/2020
Industry Updates
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Fresenius Telehealth Hub
Fresenius now offers a user-friendly telehealth solution to improve connection between patients and physicians. Citing fewer hospital... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020 -
DaVita Care Connect Mobile App
DaVita Care Connect is a new, secure telehealth platform to connect PD and home HD dialyzors and their care teams. The app allows vid... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020 -
Using AI to Increase Nephrologists’ Comfort with Home Dialysis
“We have heard for many years that nephrologists aren’t comfortable with home dialysis,” said Jeffrey Hymes, MD, Chief Medical ... [Read More]
Posted 02/19/2020
Living Well with Home Treatments
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Techs Improve Outcomes for Home Patients
An abstract presented at the Annual Dialysis Conference reported on a program using dialysis technicians to help nurses deliver care ... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020 -
Putting Out Fires
A Chenango, New York volunteer firefighter is back to helping out at the station now that he is treating his kidney disease through h... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020 -
Energy Fund Helps with HHD Cost
The ability to do kidney dialysis from home gives a NZ mum a better quality of life, thanks to the Contact Energy Renal Endowment Fun... [Read More]
Posted 02/19/2020
Pipeline Technology
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Removing B2m with Nanobodies
Among those on dialysis, a build up in the blood of Beta-2 microglobulin (B2m) is responsible for potentially crippling dialysis-rela... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020 -
Shrinking a Qidni
Morteza Ahmadi, CEO of Quidni labs, aims to design a small blood purification device that will offer longer treatment times and ultim... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020 -
Wearable Fist Assist Device Enlarges Veins for Hemodialysis
A battery-operated, wearable device applies gentle intermittent compression to increase vein size before—and after—fistula creati... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020