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 ...

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 ...

Kidney damage can sneak up on people without symptoms. A new diagnosis can mean major limits on how a person lives ...

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 ...

For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...

It is stationing nurses at hospitals to educate patients early on the treatment. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

After 11 years of treatment, Valarie Trice said she has now been approved for a kidney transplant.

Willem J. Kolff, 97, the Dutch-born doctor who saved and prolonged countless lives as the inventor of the modern kidney dialysis machine and chief designer of the first mechanical heart implanted in a ...

I sit here in a Lazy Boy type of chair as my blood circulates through tubes that carry it to a machine to cleanse it through dialysis so I can live with failed kidneys. Every Tuesday, Thursday and ...