For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...

Calgary, AB - A new study has found that a comprehensive approach to the education of chronic-kidney-disease (CKD) patients about dialysis-treatment options can significantly increase the number of ...

The two largest dialysis chains in the U.S. expanded their reach and influence in recent decades to the point that they were the only options for care for many Americans, a retrospective economic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When explaining the need for fluid monitoring, a patient who had been receiving hemodialysis for 18 months was ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Satellite Healthcare, a non-profit, top-rated provider of kidney dialysis and related patient services, unveiled a pilot study at ASN Kidney Week 2021 today that ...

WASHINGTON — A national dialysis center that contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs was the target of a ransomware attack breaching veterans medical records containing Social Security ...

A change in Medicare coverage for specific medications needed during dialysis has left nursing homes and their patients receiving in-house treatment for kidney failure in a serious bind. Starting Jan.

Dialysis facilities with higher patient-to-technician ratios have worse patient outcomes, such as early death and hospitalization. Understaffing of hemodialysis patient care technicians is associated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dialysis at home dates to the 1960s, yet teaching continues today about training and supporting patients who ...

Socorro Reyes could feel himself getting sleepy as his blood pressure dropped. He was at his usual Friday morning treatment at a DaVita dialysis center. Reyes had settled into his chair to tune into a ...

Male patient talking to doctor. To reach the goals of the Advancing American Kidney Health Executive Order, "strategic efforts to care for racial and ethnic minorities" are needed, according to the ...

Kidneys are vital for removing waste and toxins from our bodies. And when they fail, haemodialysis (HD), which is done at dialysis centres, has long been the option here. There's another option, ...