artificial kidney

The ordeal of patients with chronic kidney diseases

Four years ago, Md Tobarok Hossain left for Malaysia to work as a labourer on a palm oil plantation. He consciously accepted the brutal life of a plantation worker, only because he wanted to give his family a better life.

'World first' premature baby dialysis in Poland

An extremely premature Polish infant weighing just 820 grammes (1.8 pounds) becomes the world's smallest and youngest patient to escape death thanks to an artificial kidney, according to the doctor who oversaw the treatment.

January 21, 2023
January 21, 2023

The ordeal of patients with chronic kidney diseases

Four years ago, Md Tobarok Hossain left for Malaysia to work as a labourer on a palm oil plantation. He consciously accepted the brutal life of a plantation worker, only because he wanted to give his family a better life.

April 12, 2015
April 12, 2015

'World first' premature baby dialysis in Poland

An extremely premature Polish infant weighing just 820 grammes (1.8 pounds) becomes the world's smallest and youngest patient to escape death thanks to an artificial kidney, according to the doctor who oversaw the treatment.