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Advocacy for Better Dialysis
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Former Home Dialysis Patient Advocates for BETTER Kidney Care Act
Setting up a national system to coordinate kidney care and make it easier for nephrologists to communicate will ease patients’ live... [Read More]
Posted 06/10/2020 -
Home Dialysis Is Growing, Says Dr. Thomas Golper
At the Southwest Nephrology Conference in March, Dr. Golper said that the chances that patients will succeed on a home therapy will i... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2020 -
Nephrologist Article Calls for Additional Incentives to Drive More PD
Certain stakeholders were left out of the financial incentives to grow PD in the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) model, asserts two n... [Read More]
Posted 04/13/2020
Home Dialysis in the News
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Concerto Renal Services Expands SNF Home Dialysis Program to WI
Concerto is partnering with Ignite Medical Resorts to bring home dialysis to a new 144-bed SNF in Milwaukee. Founded by nursing hom... [Read More]
Posted 07/09/2020 -
New DaVIta Home Dialysis Fact or Fiction Video—in Just 97 Seconds
No pets allowed? Infections? A sterile home needed? No! A new, brief video dispels common myths and offers facts to help support ... [Read More]
Posted 07/09/2020 -
Home HD Nurse Sees Home Patients Through Facetime and Zoom
Nurse Shawna McMichael and her team at Washington University in St. Louis, MO made a rapid switch to telehealth to keep patients at h... [Read More]
Posted 06/10/2020
Industry Updates
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Quanta to the Rescue!
Quanta and its consumables manufacturing partner, Europlaz, have been stepping up to fill an increased UK dialysis demand driven by C... [Read More]
Posted 07/09/2020 -
Baxter Reports PD Sharesource Data at ERA-EDTA Virtual Congress
Telehealth for PD with the Sharesource platform reduced technique failure by 56% compared to usual care in a study of 558 patients, r... [Read More]
Posted 07/09/2020 -
Fresenius Plans 100+ New Transitional Care Units in 2020
TCUs help empower patients new to dialysis to learn their options and engage in their care. With a separate space and dedicated staf... [Read More]
Posted 07/09/2020
Living Well with Home Treatments
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Observations Suggest that PD May Reduce COVID-19 Risk
A webinar done with Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns (DOPPS) investigators noted that PD patients around the world seemed to h... [Read More]
Posted 07/09/2020 -
COVID-19 Fears Improved Rima’s Life—With a Switch to PD
Overcrowded hospitals—during a global pandemic—were frightening for Rima, who lives in India. But, an introduction to peritoneal... [Read More]
Posted 06/10/2020 -
Texas Man Who Crashed Into Dialysis Chose Home HD
After Jonathan Taylor, who weighed 340 lbs., collapsed in his home, a hospital visit found him within 30 minutes of death from kidney... [Read More]
Posted 06/10/2020
Pipeline Technology
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VasQ External Support FDA Fast-tracked as New Fistula Success Option
The VasQ, a nitinol (nickel titanium) cage placed around a new artery and vein boosts the chances that a fistula will develop success... [Read More]
Posted 07/09/2020 -
VasQ External Support FDA Fast-tracked as New Fistula Success Option
The VasQ, a nitinol (nickel titanium) cage placed around a new artery and vein boosts the chances that a fistula will develop success... [Read More]
Posted 07/09/2020 -
NextKidney May Be the Next Home HD Option
Dutch companies Debiotech and NeoKidney have created Nextkidney SA to lead development and commercialization of the Neokidney—a lig... [Read More]
Posted 07/09/2020