Though the increasing availability of at-home hemodialysis systems represents a convenient alternative to reporting to the clinic several times a week—allowing patients to undergo the blood-cleaning ...

Dialysis is typically performed in a hospital or clinical dialysis center, where a patient’s blood is drawn through an access point, filtered through a dialysis machine, and then returned to the body.

Hemodialysis is a procedure where excess fluids and waste products are filtered from the blood. It is done externally using a machine called a dialyzer. Millions of people in America have received a ...