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Ivanhoe Newswire) – Kidney failure, or end-stage kidney disease, afflicts more than 2 million people worldwide. Many of these individuals are on long-term hemodialysis and suffer from relatively poor physical health. A new study says, the additional treatments, which are time-consuming and take a considerable toll on patients, do not markedly improve patients' physical health. Researchers and clinicians have wondered whether increasing the frequency of dialysis treatments can improve or...
Other efforts needed to boost kidney failure patients' low physical capacity Highlights Patients with kidney failure have relatively poor physical health. Frequent dialysis does not markedly improve kidney failure patients' overall physical capacity compared with conventional dialysis. Kidney failure is on the rise and currently afflicts 2 million people worldwide. Some recent observational studies suggest that more frequent hemodialysis may prolong kidney...
HOUSTON, Feb. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicians, researchers and a nurse from the Renal Center at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston received prominent acclaim during the 32nd( )Annual Conference on Dialysis (ADC) held Feb. 26 through 28, in San Antonio, Texas. The conference, sponsored by the University of Missouri-Columbia, convened an international group of thousands of practitioners and researchers to discuss current developments in the field of renal replacement therapies....
LAWRENCE, Mass. and SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ADC 2012 Booth B -- NxStage® Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced that it is participating in several industry-focused educational presentations on more frequent home hemodialysis with the NxStage System One(TM) at the Annual Dialysis Conference (ADC) 2012. NxStage will also host a special reception event, featuring celebrity kidney transplant patient and...
SEATTLE, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Kidney Centers is honored to present the 2012 Clyde Shields Distinguished Service Award to all the patients whose lives it has sustained with dialysis treatments over its 50-year history. The award is named for machinist Clyde Shields, who in March 1960 became the first person in the world to receive dialysis on an ongoing basis. Shields received the first Scribner shunt, a breakthrough dialysis delivery method developed in...
LAWRENCE, Mass., Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced that its Medisystems in-center business and B. Braun Medical Inc. have agreed to extend their supply agreement under which Medisystems will supply B. Braun with its Streamline(®) blood tubing sets for use on the B. Braun Dialog(®) and Dialog(+® )hemodialysis systems, Medisystems MasterGuard(®) and Buttonhole(®) needles, and...
Solar power cuts costs and carbon footprint of dialysis Highlights: Hemodialysis uses up large amounts of water and power. Solar power can help offset high utility costs and make dialysis treatments greener. Approximately 2 million patients in the world receive some sort of dialysis treatment. Solar power can help offset high utility costs and make hemodialysis treatments more environmentally friendly, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the...
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambulatory Services of America, Inc. (ASA) and its subsidiary, Innovative Dialysis Systems, announced today that they have acquired Renal CarePartners, Inc., a Hollywood, Florida-based provider of dialysis services. Renal CarePartners currently owns interests in and manages 17 dialysis centers in eight states and the territory of Puerto Rico, providing care to approximately 1,100 patients. It also operates two staff-assisted home...
LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Taking control of your dialysis and finding the information you need about home hemodialysis with the NxStage(®) System One((TM)) just got easier for end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with the launch of the NxStage Find a Doctor directory. The on-line directory created by NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, makes it easier for patients to identify a nearby nephrologist...
SEATTLE, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Kidney Centers closed its 2011 fiscal year with quality measures above the national averages and a solid financial performance that enables it to deliver significant benefits back to the community. The nonprofit achieved these outcomes in the face of the most sweeping changes in federal regulations in 40 years. In 2011 Medicare introduced new clinical and financial requirements for kidney dialysis, affecting care for every patient. Northwest...
