With a small click, Jshon Thomas connected himself to his life support. It was the last step in an hour-long process involving hundreds of steps that Thomas completed with the precision of an airline ...

It's no secret that Southeast Texas has spawned a number of well-known stars throughout the years. But what about those who produce ideas or products that make your life better? Often their names are ...

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. -- Dr. Willem J. Kolff has already helped save millions of lives with his invention of the kidney dialysis machine more than six decades ago. But today, at age 91, the recent ...

Animal-to-human transplants – or xenotransplantation – is raising hopes among patients who can’t obtain healthy organs from other humans. Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful ...

If everything went right, Thomas’s dialysis machine would easily remove toxins from his blood that his failed kidneys no longer could. Today was not one of those days. For the first two hours of his ...