The world's first miniaturized kidney dialysis machine has saved the lives of eight babies in nine months, the Italian scientists who raised the money to build it said on Friday.

The very first phase of tests will involve 10 patients, all with end stage renal disease, who get to replace two weeks of standard dialysis sessions with the rolling pin-sized device.

LONDON – Doctors in Italy have designed a miniature dialysis machine for babies, used for the first time last year to save a newborn girl, according to a new report.

LONDON - Doctors in Italy have designed a miniature dialysis machine for babies, used for the first time last year to save a newborn girl, according to a new report. Usually, doctors adapt ...

A miniaturized dialysis machine has been used to successfully treat a neonate with acute kidney injury, according to an article published in the May 24 issue of the Lancet. At this time ...

Dr. Willem Kolff, the Dutch physician and tinkerer who built the first kidney dialysis machine from cellophane, Ford auto parts and other scraps and in the process saved the lives of millions, ...

Those are the kinds of results that cause doctors to describe this new $80,000 HemoTherapies unit, the first dialysis machine of its kind cleared for use by the Food and Drug Administration, as ...

Three of the world's leading players in tackling kidney disease have joined forces to create a world-wide competition to design an affordable dialysis machine, with a prize of $100,000. It's ...

Millions of kidney patients face the same unchanging ritual four hours a day, three days a week hooked to a dialysis machine. A Bay Area startup believes it can streamline that experience.

“We are grateful to be the first site in the U.S. with this technology to help the children in our care." Medtronic picked up the Carpediem system through its 2016 acquisition of Bellco; the ...

The University of Washington has the go-ahead for the first human safety trial of a portable, wearable kidney dialysis machine. The Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK) is a 10 pound, battery-operated ...