Home Dialysis News

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Although home hemodialysis utilization has increased since the pandemic, uptake still can be improved upon, according to a speaker at the Annual Dialysis Conference.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — In this interview from the Annual Dialysis Conference, Eugene Lin, MD, MS, FASN, spoke about home dialysis policy and the profitability of switching from in-center dialysis.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — When imagining the future of home dialysis in the United States, innovation and policy changes are required, according to a presenter at the Annual Dialysis Conference, here.

The nephrology community lost an expert in home dialysis on Nov. 15, 2022.

Kidney care professionals and policymakers continue to seek ways to eliminate longstanding racial and ethnic inequities in kidney health outcomes, including well-described disparities in use of home dialysis and transplantation.

CMS is making efforts to address health disparities in the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program, and DaVita Inc. chief medical officer Jeffrey Giullian, MD, MBA, FASN, said dialysis providers need to make important changes to correct the imbalance.

Baxter International plans to spin off its renal care and acute therapies global business units into an independent, publicly traded company, according to a press release.

liberDi Ltd., a device company based in Israel, has received regulatory clearance from the FDA to market a new continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis machine, according to a press release.

Patients who underwent home hemodialysis failure had a greater risk of mortality than those who continued home dialysis.

ORLANDO — Patients with chronic kidney disease who choose home dialysis have improved health-related quality of life prior to dialysis dependence compared with patients on other modalities, according to a presenter at ASN Kidney Week.