'Third World' kidney care claim
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Some kidney patients travel hundreds of miles a week for treatment in 'unacceptable conditions', a charity claims.
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The kidney dialysis unit of the public hospital in Nablus is running at capacity: four shifts a day serving nearly 100 patients. It would be a difficult task for any hospital. More so for one that has no money to pay its staff or buy fresh medical supplies.
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Extremely obese adults in need  of a kidney transplant appear to wait longer for a donor organ  than their thinner counterparts do, a study has found.
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While spending on health has tripled over the last 20 years, poor countries are not reaping the benefits, experts warn. BY MICHAEL O BOYLE/The Herald Mexico.
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What do you think of the Medicare drug discount-card program? (Check all that apply.). I&#39;m eligible but I don&#39;t use it. Biopsy results confirm a young Dublin man has contracted the human form of mad cow disease.
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Doctors have put aside ethical concerns to carry out a kidney transplant between two men who met online. A hospital in Denver originally postponed the operation amid worries that the recipient might have paid the donor for his organ.
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CONSTRUCTION of two new kidney dialysis units together worth BD200,000 will start at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) in January. They are being funded with money from a Kuwaiti donor, revealed
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In a country like the United States, one of the human body's most urgent needs is taken for granted. It comes easily out of our faucets, and gallon jugs of it cost less than a dollar.
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A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site - a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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WEDNESDAY, July 12 (HealthDay News) -- Compared to Europeans, Americans with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are more than twice as likely to progress to end-stage kidney disease, researchers say, and higher rates of obesity and diabetes may be to blame.
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NEW YORK  - Most people who live with  serious disability or illness, such as kidney failure, appear  to adapt well and maintain a healthy outlook on life, new  research reports.
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People with failing kidneys may  frequently use "natural" or homeopathic products and  over-the-counter medications that could worsen their kidney  function, a new study shows. And these products are sometimes  recommended by their physician or pharmacist.
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DAULAT NAGAR, Pakistan -- Nusrat Riaz, a doctor for 17 years, has spent the past three directing a clinic that provides care to thousands of poor patients in this remote, wheat-farming village on the plains of Punjab.
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BEIJING, July 3 -- The Chinese government imposed new restrictions on organ transplants for foreigners Tuesday, part of an effort to curtail widely reported abuses such as selling organs and, in some hospitals, catering to foreigners looking for  discount hearts, livers and kidneys.
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The Swedish company Gambro AB will sell its Lakewood-based division to a California company for $3.05 billion in cash. The division, Gambro Healthcare US, operates clinics for patients undergoing kidney dialysis and has 565 clinics and 43,200 patients.
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NEW YORK  - People with failing kidneys may frequently use "natural" or homeopathic products and over-the-counter medications that could worsen their kidney function, a new study shows. And these products are sometimes recommended by their physician or pharmacist.
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Fresenius Medical Care AG, the world&#39;s largest provider of dialysis care, said US prosecutors have subpoenaed documents about its operations, making it the third company involved in an industrywide investigation.