A new portable dialysis machine could give patients with severe kidney disease unprecedented freedom to travel and live ...

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 ...

Q: A good friend of our family is on the kidney transplant list and is having hemodialysis. Can you please explain what that entails? My wife and I want to help, but we don’t want to bother him with a ...

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 ...

The CARPEDIEM: Cardio-Renal Pediatric Dialysis Emergency Machine is specifically designed for children with kidney failure under 8 kilograms in size. “This is the first true advancement in acute ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Time needed to manually break a dialysis machine into macro parts was 12 hours. Plastics were mostly a mix of ...

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) ...

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 ...