Kidney Care Community News

The American Kidney Fund announced the launch of its Patient Access Initiative in a press release. The initiative aims to provide insight and solutions to health care access issues among patients with kidney disease and their caregivers.

Dialysis machine manufacturer Outset Medical Inc. reported record revenue for the third quarter of 2022, boosting its stock value and leading to a revised guidance for the rest of the year.

Fresenius Medical Care has revised its financial outlook for the full year of 2022 after reporting lower third-quarter revenue from its North American dialysis operations and medical products divisions.

It has been almost 3 years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Much has changed since then, yet still this virus and its variants pose a threat.

The American Society of Nephrology has announced that Michelle A. Josephson, MD, FASN, will be the society’s next president.

Fifty years after Congress enacted the End-Stage Renal Disease Program in 1972, the American Society of Nephrology celebrates the milestone in American kidney health.

ORLANDO — Improvements in training in home dialysis and transplant are part of the recommendations in a new report from the American Society of Nephrology aimed at increasing interest among fellows to enter the specialty of nephrology.

ORLANDO — In this video from ASN Kidney Week, Cynthia D'Alessandri-Silva, MD, discusses supply chain innovations for physicians and patients from the perspective of Outset Medical.

ORLANDO – A clinic in Brazil that continued in-center short daily dialysis through the pandemic reduced the risk for spreading COVID-19 among patients and staff by controlling transportation and using universal precautions, according to a poster presented here.

ORLANDO — As COVID-19 continues, drivers of current and potential pandemics are poverty, war, political instability, urbanization, deforestation, climate change and now anti-science, a presenter at ASN Kidney Week said.