The Korean War 1950-3: acute dialysis finds its place

War medicine tests science and dialysis In June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. After a rapid advance, their army was repulsed by Ame...

Hepatitis outbreaks run through renal units: 1964-72

Staff as well as patients die, and new patients are turned down in affected centres From about 1964 there was increasing excitement that dia...

The birth of home dialysis

The first home haemodialysis, 1964 In the early 1960s dialysis was still a very new technology. It was high-tech, life-saving and dramatic. ...