With a small click, Jshon Thomas connected himself to his life support. It was the last step in an hour-long process involving hundreds of steps that Thomas completed with the precision of an airline ...

LONDON - Doctors in Italy have designed a miniature dialysis machine for babies, used for the first time last year to save a newborn girl, according to a new report. Usually, doctors adapt standard ...

When Karen Everts wants to go camping, kidney failure no longer slows her down: She simply rolls the first portable hemodialysis machine out of her kitchen and into her motor home, ready to hook up ...

The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital is introducing new dialysis technology to treat infants with kidney failure. The Cardio-Renal Pediatric Dialysis Emergency Machine, called ...

Fast-growing startup Strive Health is teaming up with another disrupter in the kidney care space to expand patient access to home-based hemodialysis services. Strive Health will use Outset Medical’s ...

A teaching assistant with kidney disease who spends 12 hours a day on a dialysis machine says she faces a "life or death" situation without help with her electricity bills. Andrea Reavill, 53, has ...

As fate would have it, just a few months before his almost three-month-long stay in Novant’s Intensive Care Unit, ...

Ariel Brigham was drowning. Hurricane Harvey had dumped over 50 inches of rain across Houston and coastal Texas, leaving the then-26-year-old Texan stranded in her flooded apartment. But what was ...

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health denies claims of malfunctioning dialysis equipment in eThekwini hospitals.

Hemodialysis (HD) is a life-saving treatment for more than 1,700,000 patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage V. Every year the HD population becomes increasingly older (average age: 75 years) ...

The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital now has new technology to provide dialysis to its smallest patients. Doctor Jennifer Jetton says the machine can provide dialysis for infants ...

For the first two hours of his treatment, the machine hummed along like a washing machine on a perpetual spin cycle. Thomas swaddled himself in layers of blankets and settled into his seat. Then a ...