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

"No weakness. No tiredness ... especially her two adult daughters and two grandchildren. Being on dialysis for four hours a day, three days a week meant she could rarely travel far for long.

A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis NEW YORK – Towana Looney can hardly contain her anticipation as she waits to get wheeled to an operating room at the ...

The patient was in kidney failure and her immune system would reject a human organ. Scientists hope genetically modified pig organs prove safe and... A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother ...

As the dialysis fluid has no urea in it, there is a large concentration gradient - meaning that urea moves across the partially permeable membrane, from the blood to the dialysis fluid ...