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 ...

With a small click, Jshon Thomas connected himself to his life support. It was the last step in an hour-long process involving hundreds of steps that Thomas completed with the precision of an airline ...

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 ...

Community Hospital South leaders faced an unexpected, and urgent, dilemma. Like many other health care facilities, the hospital works with another company to provide dialysis care to its patients. So ...

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 ...

Explore why peritoneal dialysis, a home-based treatment, offers a better quality of life for kidney failure patients despite ...

For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...

Last year’s credit crunch came at just the wrong time for Xcorporeal Inc., whose scientists were close to launching costly clinical trials of a portable kidney dialysis machine they’d been working on ...

Two men have been firm friends for more than 20 years after bonding over a pair of trainers while they both received kidney ...