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 ...

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 ...

For many dialysis patients, the whole idea can feel extremely confusing and even a bit scary because the process isn't always explained clearly. Sometimes the patient themselves may not remember the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jamal Uddin's coronavirus story began like many others: His health deteriorated, he was hospitalized, he tested positive for COVID-19, and he was treated. Then his health began improving. He was going ...

Being tethered to a dialysis machine three times a week keeps kidney patients Chew Teck Seng and Malathy Naga Rathnam alive.

Recently, Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe shuttled a busload of its kidney disease patients to Mwaiwathu Private ...

The novel coronavirus exposes another potential shortage in U.S. healthcare. Jamal Uddin’s coronavirus story began like many others: His health deteriorated, he was hospitalized, he tested positive ...