Dialysis

Clinical trial: Messages from docs upped vaccinations in Black, Latino elders … U.S. Supreme Court sides with insurer on out-of-network dialysis providers … Senators introduce bill to protect seniors’...

The chief financial officer for global dialysis provider DaVita Health is throwing cold water on the notion that the COVID-19 pandemic is ending anytime soon. 

More frequent, shorter dialysis sessions reduced recovery time to one hour or less in 80% of nursing home residents with end-stage renal disease, a new study has found.

Greater declines seen for myocardial infarction, stroke, and pulmonary embolism among dialysis patients than general population

Older, frail patients with kidney failure may benefit from a new approach to dialysis discussions that supports a deferred decision, experts say.

Innovative Kidney Care says the severe nursing shortage is making it difficult for patients to move from facility-based dialysis to home dialysis.

Prebreakthrough index RBD values of <10 and 10 to <23 associated with increased odds of breakthrough infection versus value of ≥23

Patients receiving attenuated adenovirus vaccine more likely to have no seroconversion, no detectable or diminished IgG response

Family Service Society takes Gold for use of COVID-19 screening technology … Antibiotics used in dialysis patients linked with sudden cardiac death … CDC: COVID vaccine recipients have lower non-COVID-19...

Dialysis can no longer be business as usual.  While many may feel that we live in a post-pandemic society, we have data to suggest otherwise, as there have been spikes across the nation, mostly from a...