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 ...

Most innovations medicine occur by asking one simple question. Is there a better way? Physicians at the Kidney Research Institute of the University of Washington have asked that question about ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Nearly half a million Americans are currently being kept alive by a machine that makes them virtual captives for hours at a time. Now Bay Area researchers could soon be on the ...

Image A hemodialysis machine works as an artificial kidney that filters the blood and restores electrolyte balance for ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Patients with chronic kidney failure could be freed from fixed dialysis machines, thanks to a wearable artificial kidney that has shown promising results in a pilot study. British ...

Presentation of an artificial kidney machine to the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) on June 24, 1968. Museum director Frank A. Taylor stands at ...

Michigan Scrap Dealer Albert Blumenfeld knew, only two months ago, that some way must be found, and found quickly, to overcome his progressive kidney failure, or he would die of uremic poisoning. One ...

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 ...