Roy Marino is on the cutting edge of dialysis treatment. He gets dialyzed at home. At his mother's home, to be exact. Six days a week, he spends 21/2 hours in a spare bedroom of his mother's small ...

At home, she has a different kind of battle — against her own body. Four days a week, her husband, Ray Dupilka, leaves his job as a county detective and moonlights in health care in the extra bedroom ...

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Animal-to-human transplants – or xenotransplantation – is raising hopes among patients who can’t obtain healthy organs from other humans. Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dialysis at home dates to the 1960s, yet teaching continues today about training and supporting patients who ...

Tradeoffs between overall survival and time at home suggested a more favorable risk-benefit profile of starting dialysis at an eGFR less than 12 mL/min/1.73 m 2 among patients aged 80 years or older ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with failing kidneys who need to undergo dialysis will do equally well if they perform dialysis at home or if they go to a dialysis center, according to the ...

Chicago medical device startup Simergent received federal clearance for a home dialysis machine that costs up to 70% less than competing devices and aims to reduce the complexity that has limited ...

When Pflugerville, Texas, resident Melissa Bensouda gave birth to her third child in 2002 at age 27, she dreamed of dressing her baby in cute outfits and documenting all the usual first-year ...