Brigham had kidney failure, and she relied on dialysis three times each week to remove ... The Department of Health and Human Services relies on guidance from a group of federal experts to make ...

Patients with kidney failure require regular dialysis, an invasive and potentially risky treatment. But now researchers have successfully demonstrated a prototype bioartificial kidney, which can ...

Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful kidney transplant from a pig to a living human, an encouraging sign for the nearly 100,000 Americans waiting for a kidney.

For people with kidney failure, home dialysis can offer more freedom and better quality of life. So what’s stopping the NHS ...

Mobile dialysis startup eyes human trials in 2022 following encouraging animal study. ... At the moment, far more people with end stage renal disease are on dialysis than receive kidney transplants.

As doctors see coronavirus-kidney link, worry grows over dialysis machines. ... The ASN and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are “working to get better numbers ...

Researchers hope it will be ready for human trials in 2017. ... nearly 5,000 people died while awaiting kidney transplants. That leaves dialysis to help keep people alive until a transplant ...

Kidney dialysis on the go. By Linda Marsa . Nov. 12, 2007 12 AM PT . ... a device that would operate 24/7 without human intervention,” says Dr. William Fissell of the Cleveland Clinic, ...