Renal Failure

Debbie Lutman didn't know she had lupus until about the fifth month of her pregnancy. It was 1984 and she was 24. The auto-immune disease showed itself in bruises on her feet and a distinctive butterfly rash, said Lutman, of Mount Airy. It eventually...

Yakima's two hospitals reflect a nationwide pattern of massive disparities in billing practices, though the actual reimbursements they receive from Medicare and Medicaid are virtually the same. Data released Wednesday for the first time by the Centers...

They are just a few blocks from one another, but the three Scranton hospitals vary significantly in what they charge patients for the same treatment -- in some cases, by as much as 88 percent. Meanwhile, two Wilkes-Barre hospitals about five miles apart...

Moore County native Curtis Frye has coached Olympic gold medalists and, throughout his 17-year career leading the University of South Carolina's track and field program, more than 60 NCAA national champions. At age 61, Frye is not slowing down in...

After more than a year of suffering from Stage 5 kidney failure, Eddie Beatrice decided to look online for a kidney donor. "It was Jan. 1 [2013] and I said, 'Today is the day I'm going to take back control of my life,' " said Beatrice, 51, of North...

There's something for everyone at this weekend's Music in May Festival. Sponsored by Faces Lounge, the premiere event will feature outdoor daytime fun for all ages as well nighttime music entertainment for adults. And while the festival will celebrate...

Medgenics Ltd. (AIM:MEDG; AMEX: MDGN) today reported interim results from the first four patients treated in its ongoing Phase IIa clinical trial in Israel of EPODURE Biopumps to treat anemia in patients on dialysis with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)....

No matter what else is happening in his life, David Anderson knows he cannot go far from the dialysis machine that sustains him. Jobs, vacations, get-togethers with friends -- everything takes a back seat to his thrice-weekly treatments that do the work...

MISHAWAKA -- Nephrologists traditionally are brought in to care for patients who are suffering from chronic or end-stage kidney disease and approaching the need for dialysis. But two doctors at the Memorial Kidney & Hypertension Center want to intervene...

Robert Brown was healthy, willing and a good match: So why not give a kidney to his wife, who otherwise would need dialysis? There was just one potential obstacle: Brown was 74, an age once unthinkable for a kidney donor. For this retired psychologist...

"Alaska," a Maryland Zoo polar bear that had been rescued from a Mexican circus a decade ago, was euthanized Tuesday after suffering from kidney failure, zoo officials said. The female bear had been confiscated in Puerto Rico by U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

Alaska, a Maryland Zoo polar bear that had been rescued from a Mexican circus a decade ago, was euthanized Tuesday after suffering kidney failure, zoo officials said. The bear had been confiscated in Puerto Rico by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents...