Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A story in September detailed the work of Anya Pogharian on a new portable hemodialysis machine. The 18-year-old ...

Improving biocompatibility and solute removal by convection and reducing the burden of HD on hypo/hypertension, salt and water overload, and left ventricular hypertrophy are the cornerstones of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fresenius Medical Care North America clarified the class II recall of its 2008 Series dialysis machines. FMCNA ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is evaluating certain Fresenius Medical Care hemodialysis machines as they may potentially expose patients to polychlorinated hydrocarbon chemicals, specifically ...

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 FDA issued a notification May 10 about the potential risk of exposure to toxic compounds in Fresenius Medical Care hemodialysis machines. The compounds are non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyl ...

Kidney dialysis is no fun. For most patients, it means sitting in a hospital or clinic hooked up to a machine for three to five hours, three days a week. The schedule is usually fixed, the rooms are ...

This past year, three sheep in Canada have been wearing their kidneys on their sleeves. Or more aptly, in jackets on their fluffy backs. These three sheep are part of an ongoing animal study run by ...

BAGUIO CITY — Two of the four hemodialysis machines donated to public hospitals across the Cordillera region by the Cordillera Golfers Foundation Inc. (CGFI) are now operational. The first unit, ...

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) ...

Hemodialysis was found to be a poor prognostic factor for patients with RCC. The source of the chemicals is from the silicone tubing used as a part of the hydraulics in the machine and the dialysate ...