In one recent study, the challenging regimen added 77 days of life after three years. Often, kidney disease can be managed in other ways. By Paula Span Even before Georgia Outlaw met her new ...

Stopping dialysis is possible, but it may significantly shorten a person’s life expectancy. On average, they may continue to live for several days to weeks after stopping treatment. Dialysis is a ...

Dialysis: In the case of kidney failure, dialysis becomes a life-saving procedure, but can a person live a normal life after dialysis? Let's learn from a doctor what effects dialysis has on the body, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO — Patients with chronic kidney disease who choose home dialysis have improved health-related quality of ...

Life expectancy is 40 years shorter for adult survivors of childhood dialysis and 17 years shorter for adult survivors of a childhood kidney transplant compared with the general population. Kidney ...

For some patients with end-stage kidney disease, improving health-related quality of life after the start of dialysis is more important than prolonging life, according to investigators. Health-related ...

Renal dialysis patients in Fairfax can stem life-threatening bleeding through a hemodialysis “bottle cap.” Surgeons at Vascular Institute of Virginia (VIV) announced the U.S. debut of the innovative ...

Three times per week, Jaime Deras wakes up around 2:30 a.m. to make the drive from Baton Rouge to University Medical Center in New Orleans for his early-morning appointment. By 5:15 a.m., he’s settled ...