A team of six hospital staff ran the Derby 10K while pushing a 70kg (154lb) dialysis machine. The old machine, nicknamed ...

A three-year-old Canterbury girl who has home dialysis to stay alive had four machines fail in one week - and there is no back up option in the South Island. Her mother Emily Cromie said regularly ...

In this procedure, patients are connected to a dialysis machine which acts as an artificial kidney to remove most of the urea and restore/maintain the water and ion balance of the blood.