Renal therapy giant Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. looks to knock off NxStage Medical Inc. with the launch of the 2008K@home dialysis machine for patients with kidney failure. Fresenius Medical ...

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 ...

Impaired kidney function was also identified as a key risk factor for heart disease, contributing to about 12% of global ...

LONDON - Doctors in Italy have designed a miniature dialysis machine for babies, used for the first time last year to save a newborn girl, according to a new report. Usually, doctors adapt standard ...

When Karen Everts wants to go camping, kidney failure no longer slows her down: She simply rolls the first portable hemodialysis machine out of her kitchen and into her motor home, ready to hook up ...

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 in a ...