The size of a college-dorm refrigerator, the hemodialysis machines of this generation look nothing like the hulking ones first introduced to the home market in the 1960s. A touch-screen ...

Even though the 59-year-old violinist and learning and development professional had heard this percussive snap hundreds of times—Thomas hooks up to the NxStage System One dialysis machine and ...

With hemodialysis, a machine replaces kidney function with clever use of diffusion and convection to correct abnormalities in blood chemistry or volume overload. Blood is pumped from the body ...