Over two million people worldwide depend on dialysis or a kidney transplant, according to the National Kidney Foundation. Globally, the number of individuals facing kidney failure has climbed 35 ...

If everything went right, Thomas’s dialysis machine would easily remove toxins from his blood that his failed kidneys no longer could. Today was not one of those days. For the first two hours of his ...

Weaning patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) from dialysis while they are still hospitalized may save them from remaining on the treatment for the rest of their lives, according to a new study led ...

Kidney dialysis patients should be educated about the different health benefits of both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis and then given a choice as to which they would like to undergo, according ...

The risks for dialysis initiation and early death may be reduced with pre-dialysis nutrition counseling and intervention. Pre-dialysis nutrition counseling and intervention significantly delay ...

FORT BRAGG, NC – The Department of Medicine Nephrology Service at Womack Army Medical Center are pushing the limits of what can be done to treat dialysis patients in a field environment. This ...