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Advocacy for Better Dialysis
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Innovate Kidney Care (IKC) Campaign Releases White Paper
The paper, <... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2022 -
People Under Age 65 Need Access to Medigap Policies in Every State!
Dialysis is challenging enough without having to worry about how to pay the 20% of costs that Medicare will not cover. Ask your repre... [Read More]
Posted 12/16/2021 -
Congressional Tri-Caucus Demands Action
Congress must act urgently to direct CMS not to move forward with a clinical labor update and to stop 20% cuts to vascular access ser... [Read More]
Posted 12/16/2021
Home Dialysis in the News
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PD Reimagined with the New Fresenius Versi 12-lb. Cycler
The new Fresenius VersiPD cycler, recently approved by the FDA, is the lightest, smallest, and quietest PD system in the US. Redesign... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2022 -
Nephrologists Need to Learn About Home Dialysis, Too
Satellite Health Care tested the utility of a Project ECHO model of virtual mentorship to increase home dialysis knowledge and uptake... [Read More]
Posted 04/18/2022 -
Shortage of Home Dialysis Supplies Makes TV News
A nationwide shortage of PD supplies has begun to affect treatments for home patients. In this video, a man has just 2 days left of s... [Read More]
Posted 04/18/2022
Industry Updates
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Outset Tablo Could Boost Use of Home Hemodialysis
In data from a survey of 202 dialysis patients presented at the NKF Spring Clinicals meeting in Boston, MA, 77% said the features of ... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2022 -
Outset Medical Presents Three New Datasets at NKF Spring Clinicals
Outset presented new data about what dialyzors and nephrologists think about home therapies, as well information about the cost of PD... [Read More]
Posted 04/18/2022 -
Davita Appoints New Chair of Home Therapies
DaVita Kidney Care has appointed Mihran Naljayan, MD, as its new chief medical officer of home modalities.... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2022
Living Well with Home Treatments
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Granny On the Go
Sandra Cannon’s travel days were not over, just because her kidneys packed up. The Royal Caribbean Diamond member still cruises to... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2022 -
The Many Lives of James Manning
Now 90, James’ was a colonel in the Army reserves, a technical writer, a teacher, a salesperson, and is a dad of 13, a granddad and... [Read More]
Posted 04/18/2022 -
New Models Needed to Drive Home Dialysis Growth
Dr. Paul Komenda recommends just-right timing for modality education, using predictive equations to identify who is most at risk of p... [Read More]
Posted 04/18/2022
Pipeline Technology
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Phraxis, Inc Seeking FDA 510(k) Clearance for InterGraft
What if a graft did not have to be sewn to native blood vessels, but could just open up veins for dialysis through a pinprick? That's... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2022 -
Axess Shows Promise for Living HD Grafts
A synthetic, biocompatible blood vessel becomes colonized by a patient's own tissue. Now tested in 11 patients for more than 600 trea... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2022 -
Invizius to Assess Way to Protect Peritoneal Membranes
The Invizius H-Guard Haemodialysis Priming Solution uses a novel protein to lines the inside of the dialyzer to make it more biocompa... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2022