HUS Helsinki University Hospital and VTT are starting a field test of wearable sensors to develop home dialysis. A total of 36 volunteer patients will use the sensors that enable monitoring of ...

HUS Helsinki University Hospital and VTT are starting a field test of wearable sensors to develop home dialysis.

New kidney treatment techniques achieved impressive results in some studies, with one method showing 71% kidney recovery ...

The pandemic has many of us relying on technology in new ways. And it prompted some innovation, including in the health care sector. For example, patients who need dialysis on a regular basis mostly ...

Patients with failing kidneys who need regular dialysis treatments still have sky-high rates of dangerous staph infections in their blood compared with people who don’t need these treatments, ...

Employment rates for patients with end-stage kidney disease were higher for those with access to home hemodialysis or evening ...

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is the final stage of chronic kidney disease. It results in irreversible kidney impairment and causes a significant decline in urine production and glomerular filtrate ...

HOUSTON — A supply shortage due to the COVID-19 pandemic is putting some of the population's most vulnerable at risk. Kidney patients who rely on dialysis say their treatments are being cut short.