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Today, members of the kidney community will come together for the American Kidney Fund (AKF)’s fourth annual Dialysis at Home event, a free, one-day virtual gathering. This year’s event, themed “Your ...

When an ice storm hit Texas, shutting down the water supply that so many dialysis patients depend on to live, many patients who perform hemodialysis at home never missed a treatment. As a mom of three ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the American Kidney Fund (AKF) is hosting the third annual Dialysis at Home summit, a free, online event in which participants will hear from ...

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The rate of home dialysis in patients with kidney failure in the United States — 7% each in Black and Latinx patients and 9% in White patients — is low compared with the "lofty" target of 80% for 2025 ...

Sixteen years ago, Cosma’s pleas to government officials helped turn a former county physician’s home on the outskirts of ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Saia Fassisila, pastor of the United Methodist Church in San Mateo, dreaded his options when his kidneys failed two years ago. Either he stayed hooked up -- three times a week, ...

When Denise Atkinson and her husband Mike wanted to take a cruise to the Bahamas last January, they knew they could only do it if Cindy came along. But that wasn’t a major problem – after all, Cindy ...

NIPOMO, Calif. — After Maria Duenas was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes about a decade ago, she managed the disease with diet and medication. But Duenas’ kidneys started to fail just as the novel ...

Nationwide, fewer than 10 percent of people who need kidney dialysis do it at home. But close to 40 percent of patients of a Montana doctor do it... Feds Say More People Should Try Dialysis At Home ...