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 is a procedure where excess fluids and waste products are filtered from the blood. It is done externally using a machine called a dialyzer. Millions of people in America have received a ...

Hemodialysis cleans your blood using a machine outside your body. Dialysis is necessary when kidneys fail, typically at end-stage renal disease. Some people develop anemia and electrolyte imbalances ...

Animal-to-human transplants – or xenotransplantation – is raising hopes among patients who can’t obtain healthy organs from other humans. Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful ...

AS experts emphasise that kidney disease is slated to become a leading cause of death, the Government of Guyana is moving to expand dialysis services across ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of technicians to assist in delivering dialysis to the end-stage kidney disease population has been a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Time needed to manually break a dialysis machine into macro parts was 12 hours. Plastics were mostly a mix of ...

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 ...