Health Care

Patients in Iran reported negative outcomes, such as financial burdens, and doubtful factors, like long wait times, as reasons for not switching from peritoneal dialysis to transplantation, according to data published in a study.

A group of kidney disease clinicians in Australia shared a perspective that their health care systems do not sufficiently address the palliative care needs of patients with kidney disease, according to published data.

Healio Pulmonology has compiled the top news on COPD posted in 2022.

Long travel times to facilities offering mammography substantially limited accessibility to breast cancer screening, particularly for women living in rural areas, according to data published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Patients newly diagnosed with HIV at Kaiser Permanente Northern California had similar rates of rapid ART initiation and viral suppression before and during COVID-19 despite widely reported disruptions caused by the pandemic.

Among health care workers in England, prevalence estimates of PTSD and common mental disorders were markedly lower when assessed using diagnostic interviews compared with screening tools, per a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Delayed patient care is among the significant factors contributing to the “health care crisis” in the United States, according to a recent report from Sage Growth Partners, a business management consulting firm.

ORLANDO — In this video from ASN Kidney Week, Michael Aragon, MD, the chief medical officer of Outset Medical, discusses human factor validation of the Tablo Hemodialysis System with health care professionals.

Patients with inflammatory skin conditions from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, especially Black and Hispanic patients, face more health care barriers than non-Hispanic white patients, according to a cross-sectional study.

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.