In-center and home dialysis: new trials, devices, prescriptions and the policy that shapes them.
Deep Dive
Two dialysis patients, same city, same week. One gets a new machine that filters and replaces more than 20 liters every session. The other gets the same old machine with a new filter. Both are told it's the future. Hemodiafiltration has a survival trial but needs new machines. Medium cutoff…
Weekly
Two ways to clear more middle molecules arrive in US dialysis units at once. A urine dipstick can show whether patients are taking their SGLT2 inhibitor. Two papers disagree about who should let AI write the notes. Nine picks from the week of September 21, 2026, each with the story, the numbers…
Dialysis
Authors of the main hemodiafiltration trials explain how to prescribe high-volume HDF and predict it will likely become the global standard. Most of them have ties to HDF machine makers.
Dialysis
In a Healio Q&A, Dr. Jeffrey Giullian describes DaVita's switch to medium cutoff dialyzers and why he expects middle-molecule clearance to become standard care. Outcome data are still being gathered.