Dialysis is lousier than we thought: “Over three years, older [VA] patients with kidney failure who started dialysis right away lived … 77 days longer than those who never started it.”

Link. US doesn’t do peritoneal much. We way overdue to switch. But we knew it was a lousy therapy — just not this lousy.

It’s only good as a bridge to transplant. The glutides should make transplant more viable for more people.