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 ...

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 CARPEDIEM: Cardio-Renal Pediatric Dialysis Emergency Machine is specifically designed for children with kidney failure under 8 kilograms in size. “This is the first true advancement in acute ...

Outset Medical has raised $76.5 million in a series C round led by T. Rowe Price Associates. In addition to new investor T. Rowe Price Associates, existing investors Fidelity Management & Research ...

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 ...

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. -- Dr. Willem J. Kolff has already helped save millions of lives with his invention of the kidney dialysis machine more than six decades ago. But today, at age 91, the recent ...

Dr. Willem J. Kolff has helped save millions of lives with his invention of the kidney dialysis machine more than six decades ago. But today, at age 91, the winner of the prestigious Lasker Award for ...

Ariel Brigham was drowning. Hurricane Harvey had dumped over 50 inches of rain across Houston and coastal Texas, leaving the then-26-year-old Texan stranded in her flooded apartment. But what was ...

Aug. 17—SELINSGROVE — Learning how to receive dialysis at home under her own care has improved the quality of life for Susan Groce. "I do it at night while I sleep," said the Selinsgrove resident who ...

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 ...