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A faster, safer way to prep new patients for dialysis?

This procedure can cut the waiting time for patients needing to start.

For more than 14 years, Homer Glen resident Brent Song, 55, traded the cold, snowy Chicago winters for the tropical breezes and warm waters of Hawaii and mission work with his late wife, Elizabeth, in Mexico. Yet this year, a recent diagnoses of late-stage renal failure threatened his vacation plans to winter in a warmer climate.