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

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM) is encouraging patients to take control of their dialysis therapy and consider home hemodialysis in the wake of a new study that found patient survivability rates ...

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 ...

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, ...