National Dialysis Treatment Program Under Fire; Criticized As Too Costly, Risky

Kidney dialysis treatment in the U.S. is costly and has high death rates, but it doesn't have to be that way, USA Today reports: "The vast majority of the more than 350,000 Americans on dialysis are treated in centers, where three treatments a week, three or four hours each, is the norm - not because it's optimal but because that's the way it has been done for nearly four decades.