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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

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It Takes Two

Editor’s Note: The Defining the Patient- Physician Relationship for the 21st Century consensus conference and report were sponsored by Johns Hopkins and American Healthways with a goal to help improve health care in the United States by focusing attention on the ...More
February 5, 2007
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
RPA’s 2007 Annual Meeting Focuses on Improving Nephrologists’ Efficiency

The Renal Physicians Association’s annual meeting theme is a takeoff on basketball’s 3-point play and will provide nephrologists and other members of the renal health care team with useful information they can apply across the 3 primary practice settings: the dialysis ...More
February 5, 2007
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Renal Advantage completes RenaLab acquisition

BRENTWOOD, Tenn.—Renal Advantage Inc. said that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Renalab from Fresenius medical care North America. Renal Advantage entered into an agreement with Fresenius in May 2006 to manage and ultimately acquire the lab. ...More
February 5, 2007
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Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage

If your patients switched Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage plans or enrolled for the first time during the open enrollment period from November 15 through December 31 of last year, they could encounter new problems with medication coverage. In addition, a recent report ...More
February 5, 2007
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Paving the Way to Adequate Dialysis Care

An Interview with Fresenius Medical Care executive Jose A. Diaz-Buxo, medical director, Products and Hospital Group and senior vice president, Home Therapies Development Editor’s Note: In an article in January’s issue of the journal Blood Purification, Fresenius Medical ...More
February 5, 2007
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FDA names new deputy commissioner

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has named Randall Lutter, PhD, as the agency’s acting deputy commissioner for policy. Lutter will be replacing former FDA Deputy Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, MD, who left the agency to return to the American Enterprise ...More
February 5, 2007
Posted in Articles, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
Table of Contents

cover It Takes Two: Strengthening Patient-Physician CommunicationKris Robinson features Does EPO Bundling Have a Future? Keith Chartier Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage: Navigating the Appeals ProcessAnisa I. Nayeem, MD, MPH departments Editor’s Letter, Keith ...More
February 5, 2007
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Fresenius sells Pharmaplan to Novo Nordisk subsidiary

BAD HOMBURG—Fresenius said it is selling its subsidiary Pharmaplan to NNE, which is a subsidiary of pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. Pharmaplan operates worldwide as a consultant and plant engineering specialist with a focus on the construction and supervision of ...More
February 5, 2007
Posted in Articles, Business
Does EPO Bundling Have a Future?

Since November 2006, Amgen’s anti-anemia drug Epogen has surged into mainstream awareness as allegations of overuse and overspending have spread from the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine to The New York Times all the way to hearings at the U.S. House Ways and ...More
February 5, 2007
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TOC News

FDA names new deputy commissioner FDA gives Baxter conditional approval for infusion pump correction plan Rockwell Medical upgrades to Nasdaq Global Market Home Dialysis Plus receives $170,000 for prototype development Renal Advantage completes RenaLab acquisition Fresenius ...More
February 5, 2007
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation