Q: 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 him with a ...

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Most innovations medicine occur by asking one simple question. Is there a better way? Physicians at the Kidney Research Institute of the University of Washington have asked that question about ...

Kidney failure affects millions worldwide, and the number keeps rising. Each year, the global population of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) grows by about 5 to 7%. This condition leads to ...

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 ...

Michigan Scrap Dealer Albert Blumenfeld knew, only two months ago, that some way must be found, and found quickly, to overcome his progressive kidney failure, or he would die of uremic poisoning. One ...

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 ...