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 ...
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 ...
Willem J. Kolff, 97, the Dutch-born doctor who saved and prolonged countless lives as the inventor of the modern kidney dialysis machine and chief designer of the first mechanical heart implanted in a ...
Dr. Willem J. Kolff has helped save millions of lives with his invention of the kidney dialysis machine more than six decades ago. But today, at age 91, the winner of the prestigious Lasker Award for ...
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 ...