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KidneyViews Blog Topics

• We Need National GOALS For Home Dialysis! - By Dori Schatell, MS - Oct. 3
• High flux or low flux? By Dr. John Agar - Sept. 27
• Better dialysis is REAL Renal Rehab - By Dori Schatell, MS - Sept. 19
• Promoting dialysis patient exercise: Just do it (to avoid losing it) - By Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW - Sept. 12

Home Dialysis Advocacy

• What does NxStage believe is harming home HD in the US?

Home Dialysis Patients in the News

• Learn what treatment gave Regina, 55, of Freeport IL, her life back
• Go-getter Helen had kidney failure at age 92—5 years ago! What's her secret?

Industry Updates

• NxStage patients did WHAT?!
• Nephrologists: How about an online daily HD dosing calculator!
• Which dialysis market leader wants to help patients keep their jobs?
• Our sponsor DCI did something amazing in 44 cities. Find out what it was!
• The launch of daily home HD in this country may surprise you

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

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

• One way to reduce oxidative stress in PD patients
• Risks of biocompatible PD solution
• Why heart failure patients may benefit from PD
• PD may one day help stroke victims
• The future of dialysis: Mini dialyzers with nanopores
• Nocturnal in-center HD comes to Slovenia
• What does frequent HD do to the heart?
• Very tiny numbers of serious adverse events during home HD
• What are the challenges for successful home HD?

Featured Links

Here are some home resources MEI offers that can help you help patients:

• Help, I Need Dialysis! book - the dialysis lifestyle "bible".
• How to Have a Good Future with Kidney Disease - Free CKD education toolkit with 6 decks of slides, objectives, quizzes, and much more.
• Watch the Good Future slides on video - or show them to your patients.
• How about a 3-minute mini-movie on dialysis options - in English and Spanish-for your in-center patients?