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 ...

In a large observational study of patients receiving home kidney dialysis, home hemodialysis was associated with improvements in key cardiovascular outcomes compared with peritoneal dialysis; however, ...

John Luebke is one of the first 50 people to be allowed the use of a home hemodialysis machine due his kidney disease. The hemodialysis machine allows medical monitoring with the use a computer screen ...

VIENNA — “We are going to change anemia treatment. We are going to change fistula control. The future is going to be AI (artificial intelligence),” declared Adrian C.M. Covic, MD, PhD, at the opening ...

So, she looked to the Internet and did some research. She knew she had the perfect subject for her school science project, Yahoo! News Canada reports. It wasn’t long before the tech-savvy teen ...

Chicago medical device startup Simergent received federal clearance for a home dialysis machine that costs up to 70% less than competing devices and aims to reduce the complexity that has limited ...

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 ...

NKF’s new Sengkang centre offers a home-like dialysis set-up to help patients overcome fears and adopt peritoneal dialysis ...

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 ...