Kidney dialysis--the need for humanity

Meeting the World's Need for Maintenance Dialysis.

Recent decades have witnessed remarkable changes in the treatment of ESRD, particularly in the large-scale provision of maintenancedialysis. Initially,nephrology’smaindialysis–related challenge, corresponding roughly to the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, was to transform dialysis from an obscure therapy delivered in comparatively few locations into a readily accessible, sustainable treatme...

Need For a New Global Humanity-Centered Paradigm

Salient features of contemporary world are outlined: global, rapidly changing, interdependent and characterized by uncertainties that we currently do not understand. It is shown that the present paradigm is not sustainable and that it keeps the world constantly at the edge of a catastrophe: destruction of our civilization. The necessity of a new global paradigm is emphasized. It is stressed tha...

Peritoneal Kidney Dialysis

The need for dialysis in Haiti: dream or reality?

According to the World Health Organization reports, nowadays burden of chronic kidney diseases (CKD) is well documented. The high prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity, which are the main causes of CKD, is a big concern in the world health scenario. These NCD can progress slowly to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and the low-middle income countr...

Education for Humanity

Humanity is facing nearly insurmountable challenges, risks, and crises. Resource depletion, global pollution of the entire biosphere, and climate change due to our excessive and uncontrollably growing human population may be the most difficult long-term problems that urgently need to be solved. However, the current influenza pandemic and other unforeseen but inevitable health emergencies includ...