Dialysis

Healio spoke with Jay B. Wish, MD, about treatment approaches in patients with CKD and anemia.

Akebia Therapeutics Inc. has resubmitted its new drug application to the FDA for vadadustat, an investigational oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor for the treatment of anemia in adults on dialysis.

Dialysis is a treatment for when the kidneys stop working as they should.

Quanta Dialysis Technologies has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the FDA for an expanded indication of its dialysis machine to include home hemodialysis.

The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes has released a new report for the kidney community on managing the symptom burden of dialysis. “The frequency and burden of symptoms experienced by people on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis is increasingly recognized throughout the medical community,” Edwina A. Brown, MD, of the Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, and co-chair of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Symptom-Based Complications in Dialysis Controversies Conference, said in a press release. “These wide-ranging symptoms include itching, fatigue, pain, dry skin, poor sleep, muscle cramps and depression.”

In my youth, the thought of being a dialysis technician never entered my mind. The start of my journey into the dialysis world was through the military.

A new initiative seeks to offer treatment for depression inside the dialysis clinic for patients with both conditions. The program will launch in February of 2024 across four states.

A dialysis clinic that remained undamaged after a fire destroyed most of the historic town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, Hawaii, last month remains closed because electricity and access to water have not been restored.

A remote patient monitoring program for adults on automated peritoneal dialysis may lead to a lower technique failure rate, according to findings from a recently published observational study.

Diality Inc. has raised $28 million to advance its mobile hemodialysis system through regulatory and clinical review, according to a company press release.