For the almost 520,000 Americans who will undergo treatment this year, the process leaves little room for a full life. An ...

In this procedure, patients are connected to a dialysis machine which acts as an artificial kidney to remove most of the urea and restore/maintain the water and ion balance of the blood.

Building a dialysis machine that is safe ... The blood becomes thick and the heart struggles to pump. Blood pressure plummets; the brain and muscles are starved of oxygen. If this happens ...