See You in Austin or Las Vegas?

If you’ll be attending the NKF Spring Clinicals meeting in Austin this week or the ANNA spring meeting next week, be sure to stop by our MEI booth to learn what we’re up to, and safe travels! Look for booth #217 in Austin, and in Las Vegas.

KidneyViews Blog Topics:

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• What is an “eGFR,” and Why and When Does it Matter?
  04/12 – Dr. John Agar
• Dialysis Patient Needs vs. Social Worker Caseloads
  04/04 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
• I WON’T LET KIDNEY DISEASE DEFINE ME OR STOP ME ACHIEVING MY DREAMS
  03/29 – Maddy Warren
• About Me: Before, During and After Starting Dialysis
  03/22 – Nieltje Gedney

Advocacy for Better Dialysis

• Align the Incentives to Increase Home Therapies
• Innovation Through KidneyX

Home Dialysis in the News

• The Hottest Dialysis Option in India
• Implications of Drugstore Dialysis

Industry Updates

• NxStage Shared its Knowledge at the ADC
• New Baxter PD Cycler in Korea
• Fresenius a “Top Performer” in its Sector

Living Well with Home Treatments

• Beating the Odds with Nocturnal In-center HD

Pipeline Technology

• Grow it Yourself Fistula

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• Low Molecular Weight Heparin as Anticoagulation for Nocturnal HD
• LVH Regression in the FHN Trials
• Emergent Start PD Yet Again

Featured Link: NxStage DailyHemo Alarms App for Android

We know. We wish there was an iPhone version of this, too! But, if you do have an Android and use NxStage, a fellow warrior has designed an app to make it easier and faster to figure out what’s going on if an alarm goes off during treatment. You can find it here.