It can be challenging to identify which patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) will most benefit from conservative care rather than initiating dialysis. Weaning patients with acute kidney ...

The Dialysis Access Institute at the Regional Medical Center is the first hospital in the state and one of only a handful in the country to offer patients with end-stage kidney disease a new option ...

May 14 -- TUESDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) -- A major trial has dashed the hope that the clot-preventing drug Plavix could help in the delicate balancing act needed to establish a blood vessel ...

An ailing 62-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease has been given a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig in a first-of-its-kind procedure, doctors revealed Thursday. Surgeons at ...