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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...