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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

Dialysis Corp. opens Georgia facility

LINTHICUM, Md.--Dialysis Corp. of American opened its seventh Georgia dialysis center located north of Atlanta, according to a company release. ...More
August 2, 2006
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
Possis adds new catheter to product line

MINNEAPOLIS--Possis Medical Inc. said today it has added a new thrombectomy catheter to its line of products. ...More
August 1, 2006
Posted in News
CDC develops way to assess pandemic potential of avian flu

WASHINGTON--Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have developed a new research method that may help identify the types of genetic changes necessary for the avian influenza virus (H5N1) to be more easily transmitted among people ...More
August 1, 2006
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
AKF, Genzyme launch Renagel assistance program

CAMBRIDGE--The American Kidney Fund and Genzyme Corp. have teamed up to launch a program that will provide Renagel to Medicare patients who can't afford co-payments for the phosphorus drug. ...More
July 31, 2006
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
Primary-care docs failing to diagnose kidney disease

BALTIMORE--A large portion of primary-care doctors in the United States are failing to diagnose and refer patients with chronic kidney disease, according to a Johns Hopkins University study. ...More
July 31, 2006
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Virgo launches Optimum Performance Course

PHOENIX- Virgo Publishing's online training and education Web site, Nutrilearn, added a new program, the Optimum Performance Course, this week to its offerings. ...More
July 31, 2006
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
NxStage continues to add patients

LAWRENCE, Mass.--More than 200 new patients started using NxStage Medical Inc.'s home dialysis machine during the second quarter and company revenue increased more than 200 percent over the same period last year, according to a regulatory filing. ...More
July 27, 2006
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Late Sept. Medicare payment claims to be delayed

Medicare will place a brief hold on payments for all claims made between Sept. 22 and Sept. 30, which are the last nine days of the federal fiscal year. The payment delays are a result of section 5203 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which was signed into law by ...More
July 27, 2006
Posted in Blog
Johns Hopkins to launch study of kidney disease in children

--Johns Hopkins researchers are launching, what they call, the largest study ever conducted to study kidney disease in children. ...More
July 27, 2006
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
National disaster response plan in the works

Dialysis is dependent on the infrastructure of modern society--it needs electricity, gas and water. And last year's hurricane season showed the world that even the world's most powerful nation can slip into chaos when the fragile framework so many depend on crumbles. Last ...More
July 26, 2006
Posted in Blog