Long hospital visits could be a thing of the past for many kidney patients as Nottingham trials smaller machine to boost low rates of home dialysis If Ian Hichens wants to go away for a few days, he ...

The new machine is designed to treat the smallest patients Italian scientists have designed a dialysis machine specifically to treat babies with kidney failure, which they say could improve treatment.

Hundreds more kidney patients are likely to be provided with dialysis machines so they can carry out their own treatment at home, under proposals from a government watchdog. The do-it-yourself regime ...

Dialysis is the separating out of the contents of liquids. Kidney dialysis involves separating out waste products from the blood and removing them from the body, thus replicating the process performed ...

The function of kidneys is to filter harmful waste products and excess fluids out of the blood, turning these into urine that can then be passed out of the body. Patients with renal failure, however, ...

A small, experimental wearable device has moved a step closer to helping patients who rely on kidney dialysis, according to a report. For patients with kidney failure, the common treatment is to be ...

Sitting next to a kidney dialysis machine in a hospital side room, Hafsa Begum says her life has become about "surviving, not ...

Hu Songwen was studying to be a meteorologist in Nanjing when he was diagnosed with renal failure in 1993. For six years, he paid a visit every few days to his local hospital to have his blood ...

Jay Donald Lasher (1929-2022) was a surgeon who served in the U.S. Navy, and then practiced in Erie, Pa. along with his father and brother. He was especially interested in kidneys and dialysis and ...