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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s 10am. When the Healthy Nation team arrives at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu, it’s a beehive of activity. At the renal clinic, tens of patients are lining up ...

For many dialysis patients, the whole idea can feel extremely confusing and even a bit scary because the process isn't always explained clearly. Sometimes the patient themselves may not remember the ...

ATLANTA - Outside Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston neonatal ICU, where Everly Deskins spent her first five weeks of life, her parents Ashley and Bryan Deskins update the nurses who took ...

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 ...

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 ...

I sit here in a Lazy Boy type of chair as my blood circulates through tubes that carry it to a machine to cleanse it through dialysis so I can live with failed kidneys. Every Tuesday, Thursday and ...