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 ...

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 ...

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 now has new technology to provide dialysis to its smallest patients. Doctor Jennifer Jetton says the machine can provide dialysis for infants ...

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 ...

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) ...

A new dialysis machine will be added to Immanuel St. Joseph s Mayo Health System, thanks to fundraising by the ISJ Auxiliary. The group presented a check for $15,000 at an event Thursday. The money ...

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