Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Racial disparities exist in end-of-life care for dialysis patients

While end-of-life care in hospice settings is growing rapidly in the United States, substantial, unexplained racial disparities exist among dialysis patients. The findings come from a study that will be presented at ASN Kidney ...

Cardiology

Study: Protecting dialysis patients from sudden cardiac death

When people with end-stage kidney disease start dialysis, a treatment that filters the blood to rid the body of harmful waste, extra salt and water, they are at high risk of sudden cardiac death. Researchers at the University ...

Other

A breakthrough in hemodialysis technology

Universitätsmedizin Berlin have developed a biophysical treatment method that allows up to 50 percent more toxins to be removed from the blood of dialysis patients. Use of this technology may result in patients with kidney ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Kidney disease awareness grows as new dialysis cases drop

World Kidney Day was celebrated recently, and Cheryl Biggs took the time to go to her church in Larimer, Pa., for a free screening for kidney disease by the National Kidney Foundation for one reason.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Dialysis patients may have faulty 'good' cholesterol

Kidney disease patients on dialysis often have impaired high-density lipoprotein (HDL) or "good" cholesterol, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). ...

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