Every year more and more people are having kidney failure and being forced onto dialysis. Dialysis machines used at clinics are the size of a medium sized refrigerator, and weigh 200lbs. Home dialysis units are about the size of a large microwave and weighs around 100 lbs. It also needs a room full of disposable supplies. So you would think that in 70 years research would have come up with a better way to do dialysis. And it has. There are small, very portable briefcase sized units that use space age microfilters to replace the much larger old technology in current dialysis machines. These have been tested on animals, and they work. But that's where it ends. There is not enough funding to do the testing demanded by the FDA or to get approval for tests with the AMA. And the big companies that make the current machines have no interest in developing anything that might cut into their billion dollar a year business.
It's a sad world we live in.
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