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 ...

One is called HD or hemodialysis the other is called PD or peritoneal dialysis. HD uses an artificial kidney machine to filter blood three to five times a week.

The hospital performs dialysis, a procedure to remove waste from the blood, with a new machine specially designed for infants between five and 20 pounds, making for safer treatment of kidney injuries.

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 ...

Before receiving her transplant from a living donor, LaQuayia "LQ" Goldring spent up to four and a half hours a day hooked up to a home dialysis machine.

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 ...

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 ...

After years of work, Himmelfarb and Ratner brought their revolutionary new dialysis device, called AKTIV (Ambulatory Kidney to Increase Vitality), just inches from clinical trials.