With darting red and green beams above me and large mechanical eyes and grids humming and moving around me, I feel as though I’m in a 1950s sci-fi movie.

Zachary Ryan Short, 33, works 50-60 hours a week as a truck driver on dialysis in stage 5 kidney failure. He's the sole provider for his 2 daughters.

A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain ...

Introduction The Gold Standard Frameworks (GSF) Committee devised Prognostic Indicator Guidance in November 2007 to ‘aid identification of adult patients with advanced disease, in the last months or ...

Studies show that the average primary care exam runs just 18 minutes long, a time crunch that can worsen care. In a 2023 ...

Cures Act expanded enrollment eligibility for Medicare Advantage to include people with end-stage kidney disease. Sometimes ...

"One of the toughest parts of caregiving is that we may have to make potentially life and death decisions for people we love," Carol Bradley Bursack writes.

Objectives Palliative care is greatly underutilised for patients dying from advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). This study explored CKD patients’ knowledge of, and attitudes to, palliative and ...

The Kidney-Care (K-Care) program was built on K-CHAMP and uses a learning health system. It includes additional primary care provider education on new guidelines, individualized CKD education for ...

Objectives Patients with kidney failure receiving maintenance dialysis are a particularly important population and carry a heavy disease burden. However, evidence related to palliative care for ...

End-Stage Renal Disease The biggest concern arises when the kidneys start to shut down, a condition referred to as renal failure or end-stage renal disease (ESRD). ESRD requires that a patient get ...