For many dialysis patients, the whole idea can feel extremely confusing and even a bit scary because the process isn't always explained clearly. Sometimes the patient themselves may not remember the ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - There is new research that could help those waiting for a kidney transplant. Dialysis is a process that filters the blood in those living with kidney disease because the kidneys ...

According to the National Kidney Registry, more than 90,000 people in the United States are currently waiting for a donor ...

It’s 10am. When the Healthy Nation team arrives at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu, it’s a beehive of activity. At the renal clinic, tens of patients are lining up ...

ATLANTA - Outside Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston neonatal ICU, where Everly Deskins spent her first five weeks of life, her parents Ashley and Bryan Deskins update the nurses who took ...

Donating an organ to a stranger isn’t something you hear about often, but the need is huge. Here’s what’s involved ...

After 10 years on dialysis, and just days after the story of her long wait for a transplant was featured on "CBS Sunday Morning," LaQuayia "LQ" Goldring, 35, has a new kidney. Before receiving her ...

Being tethered to a dialysis machine three times a week keeps kidney patients Chew Teck Seng and Malathy Naga Rathnam alive.

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 ...

“To me, it’s so outrageous that I just have to laugh.” This is a Kaiser Health News story. For months, Sovereign Valentine had been feeling progressively run-down. The 50-year-old personal trainer, ...