SIKESTON, Mo. - Most dialysis patients must go into a doctor's office several times a week for the lengthy procedure. However, a Sikeston woman doesn't even leave her home for the process. "It's great ...

Dialysis patients using a more traditional home hemodialysis procedure have lower incidence of cardiovascular disease than patients using a less invasive peritoneal catheter for dialysis at home, ...

NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM) is encouraging patients to take control of their dialysis therapy and consider home hemodialysis in the wake of a new study that found patient survivability rates ...

HUS Helsinki University Hospital and VTT are starting a field test of wearable sensors to develop home dialysis. A total of 36 volunteer patients will use the sensors that enable monitoring of ...

Home hemodialysis is associated with decreased risk of several cardiovascular outcomes compared with peritoneal dialysis. Among home dialysis modalities, home hemodialysis (HHD) appears to have a ...

When Karen Everts wants to go camping, kidney failure no longer slows her down: She simply rolls the first portable hemodialysis machine out of her kitchen and into her motor home, ready to hook up ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Home dialysis with either partial or full assistance led to annual cost savings compared with dialysis ...

Robert Faulcon had already lived through several surgeries, including a gastric bypass surgery to manage his weight, when he got the bad news from his doctor. In 2015, after 15 years of seeing his ...