High-volume hemodiafiltration, used in Europe for more than a decade, took time to reach the U.S. due to limited research and ...

Implementation of new technology in hemodialysis (HD) machines is confronted with the appraisal of real benefit for patients and with the economic sustainability in the highest possible number of ...

Lisa Koester, ANP, CS, CNN-NP, MSN, a nephrology nurse practitioner in the nephrology division at the Washington University School of Medicine ... on how their dialysis machine works and how ...

A non-governmental organisation, SIL Foundation, has donated dialysis machines to five hospitals in a bid to improve access to life-saving treatment for patients with kidney disease at subsidised ...

DaVita said on Monday it was hit by a ransomware attack that encrypted certain elements of its network, and some of its ...

In order to maximize health and quality of life, the renal care center is one of three pediatric programs who train qualifying pediatric patients to perform hemodialysis at home using NXSTAGE Portable ...

Chicago, IL - Daily nocturnal home hemodialysis (DNHHD), a vastly underutilized mode of treatment, significantly reduces patients' medication use?in some cases by almost 90%, a new study shows [ 1].

In this procedure, patients are connected to a dialysis machine which acts as an artificial kidney to remove most of the urea and restore/maintain the water and ion balance of the blood.