Patients say they prefer home dialysis, but data is minimal. Sept. 20, 2012— -- Vanessa Evans spent 10 years driving to and from a dialysis clinic three days a week to spend four hours in a chair ...

An increasing number of people with kidney disease are turning to home dialysis. Not only does this practice save patients hassle and time, but studies are finding that those who do home dialysis also ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During a recent panel discussion1 on advancing home dialysis, the moderator asked me to imagine what home ...

Home dialysis therapies may help prolong the lives of patients with kidney failure compared with hemodialysis treatments administered in medical centers, experts report. Home dialysis therapies are ...

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, ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) is throwing their support behind a new initiative to increase the use of home dialysis in patients with advanced kidney disease. In a scientific statement ...

Home dialysis trends in Europe showed home hemodialysis adoption increased while peritoneal dialysis use decreased during the ...

When Denise Atkinson and her husband Mike wanted to take a cruise to the Bahamas last January, they knew they could only do it if Cindy came along. But that wasn’t a major problem – after all, Cindy ...

Continuous glucose monitoring can identify unrecognized hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia in dialysis patients, challenging reliance on A1c for diabetes management.

The Trump administration finalized another rule aimed at boosting end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients' access to home dialysis by allowing certain new equipment and supplies to qualify for an ...

Some receiving hemodialysis on P.E.I. will no longer need to spend hours in hospital to get the treatment. Prince Edward ...