Want to Start—or Improve—a Home Program?

Attend IU’s 6th annual “The Road Home” meeting Sept. 17-18 in Indianapolis. Register & reserve a hotel room from this Home Dialyzors United page. See you there!

KidneyViews Blog Topics:

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• The SONG–HD Initiative: Join in the Chorus! – 08/06 – Dr. John Agar
• Calling Dialysis Nurses: Be a Hero—Home Dialysis Needs YOU! – 07/29 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• Reduce Travel Stress for Your Home Dialyzors – 07/23 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
• We are More Than “Patients”: It’s Time for Nephrology to Look at the Whole Person – 07/16 – Dr. Henning Sondergaard

Living Well with Home Treatments

• How to Get Free Admission to the Sept. 25-27 AAKP-HDU Meeting in Nashville
• Satellite Offered Freedom to Lauren—and Changed Her Life
• Dale Calibaba continues his PD ride across Canada

Home Dialysis in the News

• Cleveland Clinic Includes Home Dialysis in Health Essentials.
• Black Patients Less Likely to be Offered Home Dialysis
• U.S. Pregnant Women on Dialysis May Need More Treatment Time

Industry Updates

• NxStage Hints at Innovation Pipeline for 2016
• Home HD Resources and Customer Service in Spanish
• Global PD Growth Expected
• Nephrologists: Hemodialysis University has a half day on home HD.
• Space-saving New Option for Fresenius 2008K@ Home Users

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• PD Preserves Patient Jobs Compared to Standard In-center HD
• High Phosphorus Levels on PD Risk Heart Vessel Calcification
• Brazil APD Survival Significantly Better than CAPD
• Assisted PD Not a Large Burden for Care Partners
• Where Are We With Wearable Artificial Kidneys?
• Low Molecular Weight Heparins for Nocturnal HD
• Medihoney Does Equal Mupirocin for PD Infection Control

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New, Free Dialyze to Live Booklet Shares Real-life Stories

Would it help you—or your patients—to learn how others are doing well with PD or short daily or nocturnal HD? We have just the thing! Our newest booklet is a free PDF download.