Everybody read this article, looks like in a decade or so Hemodialysis will be history

Sorry, here's the link, http://www.news-medical.net/ne...der-development.aspx

try this one, http://www.news-medical.net/ne...der-development.aspx

So what do they do about water? Carry a hose around? Cant be a holding tank on the belt... wouldn't way 10 lbs lol.

Sounds very interesting but I doubt these units will be wide use in a decade. Much more testing must be done. If you search for the actual article on WAK you will see a hydraulic diagram of the unit and what results they got when they dialyzed pig blood. No water needed. It uses a sorbent filter that basically recycles the dialysate.

http://cjasn.asnjournals.org/c...0&resourcetype=HWCIT

Article says "The Wearable Artificial Kidney is successful in preliminary tests, including two studies in dialysis patients." already tried on two Patients succesfully

Don't start looking for a new career quite yet. Remember, Dr. Kolff introduced the first Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK) while at the University of Utah in 1975. I remember seeing a photo of "Happy Patients" dialyzing aboard a raft while navigating the Colorado River.
You have to seperate the marketing from the technological reality when reading the press releases from the current development group.

Yeah that is interesting for sure but like WAK said, it will be more than a decade. Even though it was tried on a few willing souls, it needs to be tested more vigorously, then it has to be produced on a higher level, you already know that it will be redesigned at least once(some tweaks at least), and then you have the insurance companies being slow to cover it. Maybe a few decades but if it works then that would be great for the patient.