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) ...

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 ...

Chicago medical device startup Simergent received federal clearance for a home dialysis machine that costs up to 70% less than competing devices and aims to reduce the complexity that has limited ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Satellite Healthcare today announced it will participate in an ongoing clinical trial sponsored by DEKA Research & Development Corp. (DEKA). The study is investigating ...