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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 17—SELINSGROVE — Learning how to receive dialysis at home under her own care has improved the quality of life for Susan Groce ...

Dear Doctors: A good friend of our family is on the kidney transplant list and is having hemodialysis. Can you please explain what that entails? My wife and I want to help, but we don’t want to bother ...

The urea reduction ratio (URR) is one way of measuring dialysis adequacy—how much waste is removed by hemodialysis. If you receive hemodialysis three times a week, each treatment should reduce your ...

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 ...

Dialysis is typically performed in a hospital or clinical dialysis center, where a patient’s blood is drawn through an access point, filtered through a dialysis machine, and then returned to the body.