VIENNA — “We are going to change anemia treatment. We are going to change fistula control. The future is going to be AI (artificial intelligence),” declared Adrian C.M. Covic, MD, PhD, at the opening ...

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, ...

Dialysis at home: How two UP graduates developed an affordable, handy treatment option for CKD patients ...

As our population ages and the number of individuals with complex medical conditions increases, so does the number of people who suffer with kidney function failure: end stage kidney disease (ESRD).

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Remarkably, more than 3 years have passed since the release of the executive order on the HHS initiative ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A review of international registries shows patients who choose home in the first year of dialysis treatment ...

End stage kidney disease is a life-changing diagnosis, and among the many disruptions it brings is dialysis. The blood-cleansing process is complex, expensive, and time-consuming. It usually requires ...

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 ...

Medicare prospective payment for dialysis modestly increased availability and use of home-based dialysis treatment but did not affect historic racial disparities in home dialysis. Objectives: The ...

The Tablo System promises to make dialysis easier and more convenient for patients. But there are significant barriers to the technology. By Dawn MacKeen This article is part of Upstart, a series ...

Hemodialysis is a procedure where excess fluids and waste products are filtered from the blood. It is done externally using a machine called a dialyzer. Millions of people in America have received a ...

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 ...