Competitions like the Kidney X Prize have spurred interest, but the payoffs aren’t lucrative enough to overcome the expensive hurdles in bringing a better dialysis machine to market. Himmelfarb knows ...

A collaborative team has developed a new type of filter for kidney dialysis machines that can clean the blood more efficiently and improve patient care. Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical ...

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 ...

Over two million people worldwide depend on dialysis or a kidney transplant, according to the National Kidney Foundation. Globally, the number of individuals facing kidney failure has climbed 35 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hafsa Begum wants more people to register their organ donation wishes [BBC] Sitting next to a kidney dialysis machine in 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 ...

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 ...

In today’s Health Alert, Novi police and health officials are investigating after one patient died and several others became ill following dialysis treatments at a local dialysis center.

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 ...