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Social Media Boosts Donor Registration

BALTIMORE— A social media push boosted the number of people who registered themselves as organ donors 21-fold in a single day, Johns Hopkins researchers found, suggesting social media might be an effective tool to address ...read more

View of Our Health Care System

This May I would like to address the simple question: “Why are we struggling so much with our present health care system that we feel the need for a complete overhaul.” ...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

How will a Democratic House affect renal initiatives?

Unless you live under a rock, you've probably heard that the Democrats have taken over the U.S. House of Representatives and have narrowed the margin in the Senate. The big driver behind this change has obviously been the Iraq War and scandal, but many people in the renal ...More
November 8, 2006
Posted in Blog
European recall of Neulasta SureClick not connected to Aranesp

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.--A precautionary recall of Amgen's Neulasta SureClick injection device in Europe does not affect the Aranesp SureClick device recently released in the United States, according to Amgen. ...More
November 7, 2006
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
RPC officially changes name

MINNESOTA--Reprocessing Products Corp. and Rabrenco Scientific has officially changed its name to RPC, according to a company news release. ...More
November 7, 2006
Posted in News, Business, Practice Management
Get out and vote on Nov. 7

I'll risk being cliché here by telling you to get out and vote tomorrow. There's really no excuse. Here in Phoenix, polls are open for 13 hours (6 a.m. to 7 p.m.), so I'll make a blanket judgment and assume those hours will be similar in the rest of the United States. Plus, ...More
November 6, 2006
Posted in Blog
Aksys receives another Nasdaq extension

LINCOLNSHIRE--A Nasdaq listing qualification panel has granted Aksys Ltd. another extension in order for the home dialysis company to meet minimum listing requirements or face delisting, according to a news release. ...More
November 6, 2006
Posted in News, Business, Practice Management
CMS to pay ASCs for fistula, graft surgery

WASHINGTON--Medicare will allow payments to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in 2007 for vascular access surgery used to maintain fistulas and grafts in hemodialysis patients, the government announced yesterday. ...More
November 2, 2006
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
MRSA vaccine shows promise in mouse study

CHICAGO--By combining the four bacterial surface proteins that generate the strongest immune response in mice, researchers at the University of Chicago have created a vaccine that significantly protects immunized animals from multiple disease-causing, drug-resistant strains ...More
November 2, 2006
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Gambro to split into three companies

STOCKHOLM--The Gambro Group said it will split into three separate companies in an effort to increase efficiency and transparency. ...More
November 2, 2006
Posted in News, Business
Spotlight: Kidney Center of Thousand Oaks

“Put your mother in the chair.” It’s a statement Sandra Wilson, BSN, CNN, will often tell her staff to remind them of the weight each of their actions will have on the patients they care for at the Kidney Center of Thousand Oaks, located in California. The statement is also ...More
November 1, 2006
Posted in Articles, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
No Problem with AKF Part D Assistance Program, HHS says

ROCKVILLE, Md.—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the American Kidney Fund’s proposed Medicare Part D assistance program would not violate federal law, thus paving the way for the nonprofit group to build the program. The Medicare Part D Assistance ...More
November 1, 2006
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management