For patients like Pham, Vantive’s home dialysis technologies represent more than medical equipment — they’re a pathway to a ...

In this video, Anjay Rastogi, MD, PhD, professor and Clinical Chief of Nephrology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, highlights important unmet needs in chronic kidney disease.

Aug. 17—SELINSGROVE — Learning how to receive dialysis at home under her own care has improved the quality of life for Susan Groce. "I do it at night while I sleep," said the Selinsgrove resident who ...

In a large observational study of patients receiving home kidney dialysis, home hemodialysis was associated with improvements in key cardiovascular outcomes compared with peritoneal dialysis; however, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Despite the benefits home dialysis could offer to many patients and nephrologists’ generally positive attitudes ...

Establishing a Foundation for Home Therapy Innovation and Adoption Despite the clinical and quality-of-life benefits of home dialysis, the modality remains significantly underutilized, with only ...

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 ...

At 2 years after implementation of the ETC pay-for-performance model, home dialysis uptake is still slow with patients and providers both reporting barriers. Financial incentives to increase the use ...

Home hemodialysis (HHD) may offer improved health and quality of life for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), which affects more than 800,000 Americans. [i] However, due to patient fears ...

Some receiving hemodialysis on P.E.I. will no longer need to spend hours in hospital to get the treatment. Prince Edward Island will start offering at-home hemodialysis for Islanders in need of them, ...

When Pflugerville, Texas, resident Melissa Bensouda gave birth to her third child in 2002 at age 27, she dreamed of dressing her baby in cute outfits and documenting all the usual first-year ...