Roy Marino is on the cutting edge of dialysis treatment. He gets dialyzed at home. At his mother's home, to be exact. Six days a week, he spends 21/2 hours in a spare bedroom of his mother's small ...

At home, she has a different kind of battle — against her own body. Four days a week, her husband, Ray Dupilka, leaves his job as a county detective and moonlights in health care in the extra bedroom ...

Animal-to-human transplants – or xenotransplantation – is raising hopes among patients who can’t obtain healthy organs from other humans. Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dialysis at home dates to the 1960s, yet teaching continues today about training and supporting patients who ...

Home dialysis has been around for many years, but the dialysis machines have been big and cumbersome and required special plumbing, said Dr. Wilfrido Yutuc, a kidney specialist at Gundersen Lutheran ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . To truly achieve widespread adoption, it is critical that we identify, analyze and develop solutions to overcome ...

In a large observational study of patients receiving home kidney dialysis, home hemodialysis was associated with improvements in key cardiovascular outcomes compared with peritoneal dialysis; however, ...

WIXOM, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rockwell Medical, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: RMTI), a healthcare company that develops, manufactures, commercializes, and distributes a portfolio of hemodialysis ...

Tradeoffs between overall survival and time at home suggested a more favorable risk-benefit profile of starting dialysis at an eGFR less than 12 mL/min/1.73 m 2 among patients aged 80 years or older ...

When Pflugerville, Texas, resident Melissa Bensouda gave birth to her third child in 2002 at age 27, she dreamed of dressing her baby in cute outfits and documenting all the usual first-year ...

I have recently been advised to undergo peritoneal dialysis, which is done at home. However, my insurance provider has informed me that dialysis is only covered if done in a hospital, with a minimum ...

Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Kidney Dialysis Market by Type (Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis), Product and Service (Equipment, Consumables and Services), and End User ...