DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Baxter International, Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global innovator in renal care, announced today the launch of the PD Excellence Academy, a new virtual training platform and ...

Handing off dialysis patients from an outpatient to an acute care setting or skilled nursing facility can be a challenge because in many cases the timing of the handoff is often uncertain and abrupt.

When Fallon Bell was only 19 years old, she was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, the same disease that both her mother and aunt lived with. Chronic kidney disease, or CKD, is when a person’s ...

Well-trained health care assistants are sharing the workload of nurses in public renal dialysis centres as the number of patients rises, the Hospital Authority says. Hong Kong's first pilot scheme for ...

Officials at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center -- where three patients have died in the last 10 months due to a lack of nurses trained to provide emergency dialysis -- in May 2000 "turned down ...