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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2024, the FDA granted 510(k) clearance to a hemodialysis machine capable of delivering online high-volume hemodiafiltration. Since then, companies have started phased introduction of the system ...