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Essay Contest for Kidney Patients

GLENDALE, Calif.—The Renal Support Network (RSN), a nonprofit, patient-focused, patient-run organization that provides nonmedical services to those affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), encourages people with kidney ...read more

Travel on Dialysis

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” said Augustine of Hippo. For many, travel provides an expanded world view and a great deal of joy. For many hemodialysis patients, travel seems ...read more

2013 RPA Meeting

If you missed the three-day, 2013 Renal Physician Association conference held in New Orleans, Renal Business Today was there and has the highlights available at your fingertips in the latest digital issue. Renal ...read more

Venous Needle Dislodgement

Venous needle dislodgement (VND) occurs when a venous needle dislodges from a patient's vascular access during hemodialysis treatment. This report discusses VND severity and presents best practices and other solutions to ...read more

A Recipe Guide to Lowering Salt Intake

Whether you are a kidney disease patient or a non-kidney patient, it is important to keep your kidneys as healthy as possible by following a low-sodium diet. Did you know that for a healthy individual over the age of 50, a ...read more

Latest Headlines

Anemia could be beneficial response to chronic disease, study says

OTTAWA, Ontario—Anemia associated with chronic diseases, such as renal failure, could be a beneficial, adaptive response to the disease rather than a negative effect of the illness, according to a study in the Aug. 12 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. ...More
August 12, 2008
Posted in News
The financial impact of the new ESRD Conditions for Coverage

Well, it is September: Back to school for some, and back to work for others. Election season is fully upon us, and we cannot help but speculate as to who will be our next president and how his healthcare policies will impact the dialysis world. Autumn is also a great time ...More
August 11, 2008
Posted in Articles, Government & Regulation
Conditions for Coverage: Clinic Governance

Governance is a method or system of management. And in its Conditions for Coverage, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services set out to define exactly how a dialysis clinic should be governed and how it relates to the safety and quality of healthcare for kidney ...More
August 11, 2008
Posted in Articles
Frequent dialysis may benefit patients, but at what cost?

Editor's Note: Lee is an assistant professor of Operations and Information Management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He was also an author of a study in the September issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology that looked ...More
August 11, 2008
Posted in Articles, Clinical & Pharma
Can going green in dialysis save cash?

As our planet’s population continues to grow, so does the sustainable growth rate of the dialysis patient population. The dialysis patient population growth annual rate is now expected to be 6 percent, making it a 4 million patient population by 2025. As the number of ...More
August 11, 2008
Posted in Articles
NPI/IRS crosswalk creates reimbursement woes

An unprecedented wave of changes affecting reimbursement has washed over the dialysis industry the past few years. And the end is not yet in sight. The upcoming NPI/IRS crosswalk may pack the biggest wallop yet. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ...More
August 11, 2008
Posted in Articles
Amgen subpoenaed again for anemia drug sales and marketing

There seems to be no end in sight for Amgen regarding government scrutiny over its anemia drugs Aranesp and Epogen. The latest round came July 18, when the biotech giant received a supplemental subpoena about the sales and marketing of their anemia drugs.WashingtonState has ...More
August 11, 2008
Posted in Blog
Majority of Americans think healthcare system needs major overhaul

NEW YORK--Americans are dissatisfied with the U.S. healthcare system and 82 percent think it should be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt, according to a new survey released by The Commonwealth Fund. ...More
August 11, 2008
Posted in News, Government & Regulation
NephCure Foundation awards $1.6 million in research grants

BERWYN, Pa.--The NephCure Foundation has awarded more than $1.6 million to eight grant recipients for the 2008 NephCure Research Scientific Grant Program. ...More
August 11, 2008
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma
MIQS wins Sybase 8th annual Innovator Award

LAS VEGAS—MIQS Inc. has received Sybase Inc.'s 2008 Innovator Award for data management. ...More
August 11, 2008
Posted in News