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 ...

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 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 ...

Patients on kidney dialysis now have another option -- a portable machine than can go almost anywhere. Joyce and Ken Eiler had to give up on traveling to dog shows with their prize-winning Samoyeds ...

Community Hospital South leaders faced an unexpected, and urgent, dilemma. Like many other health care facilities, the hospital works with another company to provide dialysis care to its patients. So ...

It’s 10am. When the Healthy Nation team arrives at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu, it’s a beehive of activity. At the renal clinic, tens of patients are lining up ...

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 ...

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 ...

AS experts emphasise that kidney disease is slated to become a leading cause of death, the Government of Guyana is moving to expand dialysis services across ...