Patients with end-stage renal disease who presented to the emergency department (ED) after missing hemodialysis sessions showed distinct clinical and social risk factors, including higher rates of ...

Peritoneal dialysis is a procedure to remove waste products from the blood, such as creatinine and urea, which are insufficiently removed by the kidneys in patients with renal failure. The dialysis ...

Major complications occur in 7.0% of patients undergoing nephrectomy with a diagnosis of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), according to a study published online Dec. 17 in Urology ...

Can a Single-Payer Approach Work for Cell, Gene Therapies? Medscape Medical News talked with researcher Stacie Dusetzina about the prospects for a single-payer program to help with the very high ...

Depression has been identified as a complicating comorbid diagnosis in a variety of medical conditions, including end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Despite this, the psychological health of hemodialysis ...

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Swan neck deformity is a hand deformity in which your fingers are bent abnormally. Your finger’s middle joint bends back more than usual. The tip of your finger is bent down. Swan neck deformity only ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shadrack Nyongesa’s appointment with the knife was set for shortly after dawn. Since the previous morning, the ...