More than 26 million Americans have kidney disease, according to the National Kidney Foundation, and about 430,000 Americans with end-stage renal disease require dialysis. While our two kidneys are ...

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I was spending over 20 hours driving my husband to dialysis in rural Illinois. I trained myself how to do it at home.

Once on HD, always on HD? Many ESRD patients are automatically started on hemodialysis due to late referral. “They get to us so late in the course of their disease,” Dr. Bray explained. “If a patient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Much of the harm seen with kidney replacement therapy may be attributable to starting dialysis at all rather ...

Patients with acute kidney injury requiring outpatient dialysis after hospital discharge receive the same care as those with the more common end-stage kidney disease, according to a study led by UC ...

Dialysis centers are facing shortages of the nurses that run the facilities and the technicians who operate the dialysis machines. Using a calculated risk score to monitor hemodialysis vascular access ...

Marlene LeMarr was driving her husband, Terry, to dialysis nearly 40 miles away from their home. It impacted her ability to care for her grandkids, who she helps raise. Home dialysis has allowed ...