The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital now has new technology to provide dialysis to its smallest patients. Doctor Jennifer Jetton says the machine can provide dialysis for infants ...

Medically reviewed by Mary Josephine Hessert, DO Hemodialysis uses a machine to filter your blood when your kidneys are failing.In peritoneal dialysis, dialysis solution absorbs wastes from your body, ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - There is new research that could help those waiting for a kidney transplant. Dialysis is a process that filters the blood in those living with kidney disease because the kidneys ...

A teaching assistant with kidney disease who spends 12 hours a day on a dialysis machine says she faces a "life or death" situation without help with her electricity bills. Andrea Reavill, 53, has ...

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 ...

Patients on kidney dialysis now have another option -- a portable machine than can go almost anywhere. Joyce and Ken Eiler had to give up on traveling to dog shows with their prize-winning Samoyeds ...

After 10 years on dialysis, and just days after the story of her long wait for a transplant was featured on "CBS Sunday Morning," LaQuayia "LQ" Goldring, 35, has a new kidney. Before receiving her ...

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 ...

Aug. 17—SELINSGROVE — Learning how to receive dialysis at home under her own care has improved the quality of life for Susan Groce. "I do it at night while I sleep," said the Selinsgrove resident who ...

Himmelfarb knows patients have long hoped for a miracle device that could make dialysis easier. “Then the light bulb clicked,” he says. “We have to be that hope.” After years of work, Himmelfarb and ...