16th December 2014
The thought of an artificial organ that’s keeping you alive from outside your body – literally carrying the blood through tubes from your body into a machine sitting next to you, which cleans it and then pumps it back into ...
14th November 2014
There’s nothing new in wearables reinventing medicine and health. Smart watches, headbands, ankle monitors and fitbits are hitting headlines every week giving patients more information and data on their body than ever before. And though I wouldn’t want ...
30th September 2014
It's about freedom. Flexibility. Choice. People with kidney failure once had just two options: kidney transplantation or visiting a clinic for dialysis several times per week. Now that's changed. Even those suitable for transplantation usually could spend years on dialysis ...
27th August 2014
For kids with kidney failure, haemodialysis is a fact of life: the tubes, the machine, the tedium of waiting hours for their blood to be cleaned. Dialysers do the job that healthy kidneys should do. But don't listen to me... ...