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 ...

The hemodialysis machine allows medical monitoring with the use a computer screen during the transport, filtering and blood flow return in his home. The home hemodialysis allows Luebke greater freedom ...

WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresenius Medical Care (FME), a global leader in kidney care, has achieved a growth milestone of more than 14,000 U.S.-based patients using the Company's ...

DECATUR - Lee Joy, 48, has been living with kidney disease since he was diagnosed in 1996. Joy had torn an abdominal muscle at work, which caused a hiatal hernia. He went to the hospital because of ...

Home dialysis has been around for many years, but the dialysis machines have been big and cumbersome and required special plumbing, said Dr. Wilfrido Yutuc, a kidney specialist at Gundersen Lutheran ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Common peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis barriers included equipment storage issues. Struggles with ...

End stage kidney disease is a life-changing diagnosis, and among the many disruptions it brings is dialysis. The blood-cleansing process is complex, expensive, and time-consuming. It usually requires ...

Himmelfarb knows patients have long hoped for a miracle device that could make dialysis easier. “Then the light bulb clicked,” he says. “We have to be that hope.” After years of work, Himmelfarb and ...

Jshon Thomas, right, and his husband, Gary Carson, have spent hours training to use Thomas’s home dialysis machine. Brian L Frank For Thomas and the nearly 520,000 Americans who rely on dialysis, the ...