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Janice Brown hooked up to a dialysis machine in COVID-19 unit isolation room at Desert Valley Medical Group, Victorville. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Calif.'s new dialysis ballot measure

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Janice Brown hooked up to a dialysis machine in COVID-19 unit isolation room at Desert Valley Medical Group, Victorville. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

They were the pandemic’s perfect victims

Duaa Eldeib - ProPublica
Traci Evans-Simmons has been on dialysis for three years and waiting for a kidney transplant since early 2019. She is considering getting a kidney transplant from a hepatitis C-positive donor. (Larry C. Price)

Can less-than-perfect donors save lives?

Carrie Arnold - Undark
Janice Brown hooked up to a dialysis machine in COVID-19 unit isolation room at Desert Valley Medical Group, Victorville. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Dialysis industry spends big on CA races

Samantha Young - KFF Health News
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David White, shown at his suburban Washington, D.C. apartment, was on dialysis for almost six years before a successful kidney transplant. (Larry C. Price)

Minorities' labyrinth to kidney care

Carrie Arnold - Undark
Dr. Jeffrey Berns says the financial incentive for doctors to steer patients to clinics they co-own can affect patient care. (Larry C. Price)

American on dialysis: part two

Carrie Arnold - Undark
Jo Karabasz says she’s handled a lot in her 58 years of life, but when it comes to her dialysis, she needs things to go smoothly. “Just don’t fuss with me,” she said. (Larry C. Price)

Dialysis is big business. Is it rigged?

Carrie Arnold - Undark
A patient undergoes dialysis at a clinic in Sacramento, Calif., Sept, 24, 2018. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

The bloodsuckers of Big Dialysis

Nicole Karlis
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A public notice posted on one of the side doors of the Dialysis Clinic informs patients that due to problems with its dialysis solutions, treatments are been put on hold at the LBJ Medical Center, in Fagaalu, American Samoa Friday, June 5, 2015. Residents who require dialysis were in their third day without the vital treatment Friday after a product recall closed their clinic, but so far none have sought emergency medical attention, the U.S. territory's only hospital said. Until Saturday, there are no other options for dialysis patients on the island with a population of about 55,000, roughly 2,300 miles south of Hawaii. (AP Photo/Fili Sagapolutele) (AP)

Dialysis oversight

Anna Gorman - KFF Health News

oliver nails for-profit health

Charlie May
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