Hemodialysis cleans your blood using a machine outside your body. Dialysis is necessary when kidneys fail, typically at end-stage renal disease. Some people develop anemia and electrolyte imbalances ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (WSFA) - The only kidney dialysis facility in Macon County is on the verge of closure. Now, Tuskegee Mayor Chris Lee is urging immediate action to keep the life-saving service available ...

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) offers better quality of life than haemodialysis (HD), but fear and misunderstanding limit its adoption in Singapore, despite hospital education efforts. Kidney transplants ...

Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis (PD) are the two main kidney replacement treatments; haemodialysis is done at centres, whereas PD is home-based. PD involves inserting fluid into the abdomen to ...

A new international trial has delivered striking results for people on dialysis, showing that daily fish oil supplements can sharply reduce serious heart-related events. Patients taking fish oil had ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

The UNC System is working on a policy to give the public a way to understand what content is being taught in classrooms. System President Peter Hans said the syllabus for every class at the public ...

A leading U.S. senator is calling on federal regulators to share the results of an investigation into the dialysis industry, where critics say a "duopoly" has compromised the quality of critical, ...

Primary care clinicians should initiate treatment options for advanced chronic kidney disease with older patients, according to the authors of a new review published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Because ...

Fish oil supplements cut the likelihood of serious cardiovascular events by almost half among patients who regularly receive hemodialysis, according to the PISCES trial. Over 3.5 years of follow-up, ...

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 ...

Death rates for U.S. kidney dialysis patients are among the highest in the industrialized world. A CBS News Data Team investigation has found that one-third of the nation's dialysis clinics have ...