ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the American Kidney Fund (AKF) is hosting the third annual Dialysis at Home summit, a free, online event in which participants will hear from ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The legislation would qualify more medical professionals to provide home dialysis training and offer staff ...

Animal-to-human transplants – or xenotransplantation – is raising hopes among patients who can’t obtain healthy organs from other humans. Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Kidney Fund (AKF) has partnered with Home Dialyzors United, a nonprofit advocating on behalf of the home dialyzor community, to host the ...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — When imagining the future of home dialysis in the United States, innovation and policy changes are required, according to a presenter at the Annual Dialysis Conference, here.

Tradeoffs between overall survival and time at home suggested a more favorable risk-benefit profile of starting dialysis at an eGFR less than 12 mL/min/1.73 m 2 among patients aged 80 years or older ...

Access to dialysis care remains a life-or-death issue for the nearly 520,000 Americans currently on dialysis, according to National End Stage Renal Disease Census data. While the United States has ...

Once on HD, always on HD? Many ESRD patients are automatically started on hemodialysis due to late referral. “They get to us so late in the course of their disease,” Dr. Bray explained. “If a patient ...

Bermuda Home Dialysis Services is hosting two free information sessions this week for residents living with chronic kidney ...

Every week, thousands of people with kidney disease in the UK spend long hours in hospital receiving life-saving dialysis. For many, this means travelling to a kidney unit three times a week and ...

Dialysis centers closed. Hospitals overwhelmed. When a historic winter storm walloped Texas in 2021, tens of thousands of dialysis patients were trapped at home with no treatment options. FILE – A ...