Kamal Shah's Blog

Hepatitis C is a very common virus with which dialysis patients are infected.

As part of the Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls, officials from the Election Commission visited the apartment complex where we stay.

Ever since NephroPlus went public in December last year, we in the management team had been planning an offsite where we could debate and discuss the plans for the coming year.

While I had a fair idea about why more ESKD patients around the world are not on PD, I thought I should ask Claude, who would give me an unvarnished answer backed by facts.

I just completed 20 years on daily nocturnal hemodialysis at home.

NephroPlus has been operating in the Philippines for about six years now.

Life on dialysis can be onerous.

The year 2025 was one of the hardest years for my health.

Before the COVID pandemic in 2020, I never had trouble sleeping.

I was recently asked to get my Serum Aluminium level tested.

The Government of India launched the National Program for Rare Diseases (NPRD) a few years back.

Extract from a post published on the aHUS India Foundation's website: In a long-awaited welcome development, Eculizumab has been formally launched in India.

There's a lot of news about AI taking people's jobs.

It's been a little over three years since I switched to Daily Nocturnal Home HDF.

We had an overwhelming response for the first aHUS webinar we held on Monday 30 June.

The Atypical HUS India Foundation is hosting its first webinar.

Thinking is one of the most common activities humans perform.

Let’s face it: the life expectancy of someone on dialysis is lower than that of someone with healthy kidney function.

I started home dialysis in 2006 and began using buttonhole needles around the same time.

Most dialysis patients have anemia, which is characterized by low hemoglobin.

Soliris (brand name for the drug Eculizumab from Alexion Pharmaceuticals, now acquired by Astra Zeneca) was finally approved by the Indian drug control body, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) yesterday.

I thought it would be interesting to see how the main numbers of my Home HD treatments have varied over the years, I have been maintaining this data electronically only since 2021 so I only have 4 years' data.

For the past few years, I have had this ritual that I perform at the end of every year.

There are several points of uncertainty that can actually impact the amount of sodium going into your body during the dialysis session.

In the first week of October, the Delhi High Court heard several petitions together that were filed by patients afflicted with a rare disease or their parents.