UCSF researchers have designed a model filtration system that could offer a new approach to treating patients suffering from end-stage renal disease, potentially removing the need for a clinic-based ...

A functional dialysis membrane has been fabricated from a sheet of graphene -- a single layer of carbon atoms, linked end to end in hexagonal configuration like that of chicken wire. The graphene ...

The "Medical Membranes Market by Material (PTFE, PVDF, PP, PSU & PESU), Process Technology (UF, MF, NF), Application (Pharmaceutical Filtration, Hemodialysis, Drug Delivery, IV Infusion & Sterile ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Research from two studies presented at The Annual Dialysis Conference suggested at-home use ...

Physicists have proven theoretically that active sieving, as opposed to its passive counterpart, can improve the separation abilities of filtration systems. Active sieving also has the potential to ...

Baxter International Inc. said for the first time that its dialysis filters "appear to have played a role" in the deaths of as many as 53 patients in Texas and Nebraska and in six countries in Europe, ...

GRENOBLE, France & SKOPPUM, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: MEMSCAP (Paris:MEMS) (NYSE Euronext: MEMS), the leading provider of innovative solutions based on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical ...

CHICAGO (AP) _ Baxter International Inc. said Monday that its dialysis filters appear to have played a role in the recent deaths of dialysis patients in several countries. The company's announcement ...

This article is part of a series of profiles on the 2020 winners of the National Academy of Medicine’s Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards — part of the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, a multiyear ...

A team of Australian researchers is developing a blood test for diagnosing cancer. Interest in liquid biopsies is reaching the saturation point, but they have bigger ambitions: to turn their ...

Dialysis, in the most general sense, is the process by which molecules filter out of one solution, by diffusing through a membrane, into a more dilute solution. Outside of hemodialysis, which removes ...