Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Baxter Renal Care has pulled the plug on clinical trials in Canada and in the U.S. for its Vivia home ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A story in September detailed the work of Anya Pogharian on a new portable hemodialysis machine. The 18-year-old ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is evaluating certain Fresenius Medical Care hemodialysis machines as they may potentially expose patients to polychlorinated hydrocarbon chemicals, specifically ...

Improving biocompatibility and solute removal by convection and reducing the burden of HD on hypo/hypertension, salt and water overload, and left ventricular hypertrophy are the cornerstones of ...

Dear Doctors: 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 17—SELINSGROVE — Learning how to receive dialysis at home under her own care has improved the quality of life for Susan Groce ...

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 ...

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 ...

BAGUIO CITY — Two of the four hemodialysis machines donated to public hospitals across the Cordillera region by the Cordillera Golfers Foundation Inc. (CGFI) are now operational. The first unit, ...

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) ...

Hemodialysis was found to be a poor prognostic factor for patients with RCC. The source of the chemicals is from the silicone tubing used as a part of the hydraulics in the machine and the dialysate ...