Most innovations medicine occur by asking one simple question. Is there a better way? Physicians at the Kidney Research Institute of the University of Washington have asked that question about ...

When 500 far-out medical investigators gathered in Chicago last week for the annual meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, they spent much of their time discussing something ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Nearly half a million Americans are currently being kept alive by a machine that makes them virtual captives for hours at a time. Now Bay Area researchers could soon be on the ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — A Seattle researcher and his team could be among the first scientists to develop a portable, artificial kidney that has the potential to help millions of patients undergoing dialysis for ...

Kidney failure affects millions worldwide, and the number keeps rising. Each year, the global population of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) grows by about 5 to 7%. This condition leads to ...

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 ...

Nearly 90,000 patients in the United States are waiting for a lifesaving kidney transplant, yet only about 25,000 kidney transplants were performed last year. Thousands die each year while they wait.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Willem J. Kolff (1911-2009) was a ...