Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 17—SELINSGROVE — Learning how to receive dialysis at home under her own care has improved the quality of life for Susan Groce ...

It is feasible and safe to widen the availability of peritoneal dialysis performed at home as initial treatment for patients with advanced chronic renal disease, according to new US research. In a ...

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, ...

In 2014, Amber Pettis felt nauseous and tired. She went to see her doctor because she thought she had a stomach bug. Instead, she learned she had kidney failure, a life-altering disease requiring long ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to know how it can improve dialysis access after a patient leaves the ...

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As patients, physicians, dialysis providers, and payers search for more favorable outcomes in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), alternative dialysis regimens have gained popularity. Among ...

Dialysis patients using a more traditional home hemodialysis procedure have lower incidence of cardiovascular disease than patients using a less invasive peritoneal catheter for dialysis at home, ...

The initiative at Southend Hospital allows patients to have dialysis catheters fitted using a minimally invasive day-case procedure.

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 ...