dialysis

Health care workers in dialysis centers are in extra strain caring for their patients, who are vulnerable for the coronavirus. However, they received some relief when an organization surprised eight dialysis centers with free lunches. Prince George’s County Bureau Tracee Wilkins reports.

An Atlanta couple’s dream cruise vacation took a scary turn when Tori Austin’s fiancée suffered a serious medical emergency on board the ship, NBC News reports. Austin told NBC News her fiancée, Stephen Johnson, was rushed to a private hospital in Progreso, Mexico, over a week ago in critical condition after medics aboard a cruise ship diagnosed him with pancreatitis,...

Aron Eisenberg, who played fan-favorite Ferengi character Nog on the ’90s series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” has died. He was 50. The actor is survived by his new wife, Malssa Longo, and two sons, Christopher Eisenberg and Nicholas Eisenberg. Longo announced on Facebook on Saturday morning that Eisenberg was hospitalized in critical condition, without elaborating. That night, she revealed...

Kiyana Porter has waited more than two years for a new kidney, with no luck. National Minority Donor Awareness Week, founded by doctors more than 20 years ago, hopes to encourage people of all ethnicities to donate organs. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A stray bullet hit a window at Howard University Hospital narrowly missing innocent people inside, including a newborn. Meagan Fitzgerald reports.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday revamping care for kidney disease so more people whose kidneys fail can have a chance at early transplants and home dialysis, and others don’t get that sick in the first place. Trump said his order was aimed at “making life better and longer for millions” by increasing the supply of donated kidneys,...

Like Neighbors offers support for military families in challenging times. Founder and CEO Judy O’Connor spoke with Pat Lawson Muse.

A retired Montgomery County police officer says he feeling the best he’s felt in years after receiving a living donor kidney transplant from a former colleague.

A drug that’s used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes has now been shown to help prevent or slow kidney disease, which causes millions of deaths each year and requires hundreds of thousands of people to use dialysis to stay alive. Doctors say it’s hard to overstate the importance of this study, and what it means for...

Valentine’s Day is usually all about hearts, but it’s another organ that made one former Montgomery County police officer’s day on Thursday: a kidney.

One man was killed and another was hurt Thursday at a staffing agency that works with day laborers. News4’s Chris Gordon reports.

Frank Adonis, an actor best known for his roles in Martin Scorsese films including “Goodfellas,” ”Raging Bull” and “Casino,” has died. He was 83. His wife, Denise, told TMZ and Fox News that he died Wednesday in Las Vegas after several years of illness, mostly from kidney problems. She said he’d been on dialysis and was on a ventilator for...

The movie “Christmas Vacation” is a holiday favorite. And now, there’s a real-life Clark Griswold in Wilmington, Massachusetts: 21-year-old Charles Fiore

The “Modern Family” star opened up about her hospital roller coaster over the last two years.

A Gurnee woman no longer needs dialysis thanks to her younger brother’s ultimate gift.

In the first statewide referendum on transgender rights, Massachusetts voters on Tuesday beat back a repeal attempt and reaffirmed a 2016 law extending nondiscrimination protections to transgender people, including their use of public bathrooms and locker rooms. Voters in 37 states considered an array of intriguing ballot measures Tuesday. Michigan voters made their state the first in the Midwest to...

As weeks turned into months, the seats of the small plane began to empty out. In the beginning, 15 passengers flew from Vieques to the Puerto Rican mainland — refugees from Hurricane Maria. The storm had ruined the only dialysis center on this tiny island, their home; without treatment, the kidney patients would die. But the thrice-weekly trips have taken...

More than six months after Hurricane Irma’s catastrophic rampage across the Caribbean and the southeastern United States, the number of deaths attributed to the storm increased to 129 — more than twice the amount reported at the end of the storm. It took years for Hurricane Katrina’s death toll to become fully known. That number is still debated today with...

As Tropical Storm Florence inundated the Carolinas on Friday, President Donald Trump circled back to his claim that the official death toll from a devastating storm a year earlier in Puerto Rico was inflated and said the number of dead seemed to rise from double digits to 3,000 “like magic.” Public health experts have estimated that nearly 3,000 perished because...

President Donald Trump denied the updated death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria in a pair of tweets, just as Hurricane Florence was slated to make landfall on the U.S. East Coast. Close to 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico from the 2017 storm, according to an independent study commissioned by its government.