WYOMING, Mich. (AP) — A couple in masks and protective gowns exchanged wedding vows outside a western Michigan dialysis center so the bride's father could attend.

DETROIT (AP) — The state Corrections Department, citing fewer prisoners and other changes, is closing a Detroit location that houses parole violators and inmates who need dialysis.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's state-owned oil company said the death toll from a tainted drug given to dialysis patients at one of its regional hospitals has risen to five.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man undergoing kidney dialysis three times a week is upset that he can't bring a life-sized cardboard cutout of President Donald Trump for emotional...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked enforceent of a California law aimed at preventing increased billing costs at dialysis clinics.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A federal lawsuit has been filed over a California law aimed at preventing increased billing costs at dialysis clinics but that plaintiffs contend will drive up patients'...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters reject ballot measure that would have restricted dialysis clinics' profits.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A mobile dialysis unit long sought by patients suffering kidney failure on the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques has arrived more than a year after Hurricane Maria.

Gov. Ricardo Rossello said Thursday that the $3 million unit bought by the U.S. government will be set up at a shelter serving as a makeshift emergency clinic.

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Every Aug. 15 for the last 25 years, Mike McClanahan has sent a bouquet to a woman living in Dover, Tennessee.

McClanahan of Roanoke and Shirley Grizzard met only once, and they have little in common with the exception of one large thing: Each carries within the love of Orlando De la Rosa.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected a petition to get a proposed constitutional amendment that would cap the costs of kidney dialysis on the November ballot.

The court ruled Monday that the petition campaign's paid organizers didn't fill out required disclosure forms before they gathered signatures. As a result, all 300,000 signatures were thrown out.

BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts company has agreed to pay $32 million to end a lawsuit that alleged the company fraudulently profited from the treatment of kidney dialysis patients.

The agreement announced Monday ends a two-year legal battle between Beverly-based American Renal Associates and UnitedHealth Group.

WILSON, N.C. (AP) — Despite his age, Lloyd Cameron could be a poster child.

Cameron, 57, celebrated his 30th year being on dialysis in Wilson.

The lifelong farm worker from Elm City was surrounded by nurses, doctors and friends as the rare anniversary was recognized at DaVita of Wilson.

"I love them all," Cameron said of his supporters. "They have been so nice and kind to me. I guess that's why I do so good. They keep me straight in line."

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Elizabeth Barton's kidneys have failed her.

The Hillsboro mother has end-stage renal disease, and in order to survive she's on dialysis 18 hours a day. Fluid pumped into her veins through a tube in her stomach cleans her blood as a kidney should.

Barton, 38, is among the roughly 1,000 St. Louis-area residents who are waiting for a kidney transplant, a wait that can last years.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Edith King of Pittsfield has been on dialysis for about two years, spending more than three hours in treatment three times a week.

The 80-year-old Pittsfield resident was all smiles Friday afternoon while sitting in one of the 21 stations at the new Berkshire Medical Center renal dialysis center on Conte Drive.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The first weeks of dialysis were the best ones.

Three days a week my mother would go to the dialysis center. Long a diabetic, her kidneys failed in her 40s. She was cheerful as she sat there hooked to a machine that would clean her blood over about a three-hour period, doing the job her kidneys couldn't.

Mom would read and watch TV, she'd chat with visitors, like me, who would come keep her company. The nurses and medical technicians loved her vibrant personality.

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — "Our little family has big news."

Eric Stapley wasn't sure what the text from his brother could mean. He and his wife, Kelsie, thought there was no way Kyle and his wife could be expecting another child.

After medical appointments and Eric's four hours of dialysis for the day, the couple met with the rest of the family at his mother's house in Cedar City.

DENVER (AP) — A pharmacy services unit of dialysis provider DaVita Inc. has agreed to pay $63.7 million to resolve allegations that it improperly billed federal health care programs and paid illegal financial inducements to patients.

The Denver Post reports that the U.S. Department of Justice announced the settlement on Thursday, which resolves an investigation into the pharmacy services unit that specializes in serving patients with severe kidney disease.

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Adelaide Mier, local dialysis nurse and clinic manager at Fresenius Kidney Care of Alamogordo, was one of 16 nurses from her company to join relief efforts in Puerto Rico following the devastation of Hurricane Maria.

Upon receiving a company email asking for Spanish-speaking nurses who could break away from their clinics for a two week assignment in Puerto Rico, Mier said she felt compelled to help.

HONOLULU (AP) — A surge in patients and a shortage of dialysis clinics has Hawaii's two dialysis operators planning to open as many as six new clinics annually over the next five years.

The new clinics would help handle the 700 new dialysis patients a year in the state — but not until the facilities are certified by the state Department of Health and federal authorities, a process that can take up to three years.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eight nearly new kidney dialysis clinics in Kansas are sitting mostly unused because the state is more than two years behind in inspecting and certifying the facilities.

Another four clinics have halted expansions as they wait for state inspections, the Kansas City Star reported .

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — "I am looking for a hero."

"I'd like another 12 years with the man I love."

"I need someone to come forward. They will save my life. Please call."

Anna Kaschner, 37, made her plea again and again for more than a year through posts on social media.

ROLLINSFORD, N.H. (AP) — An hour before bedtime, every night, Jack Carroll plugs himself into a dialysis machine and tries to fall asleep. Over the next eight hours, nearly 170 ounces of fluid cycles though his body, removing toxins his failing kidneys leave behind.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's attorney general accused the nation's largest provider of kidney dialysis services of Medicaid fraud Thursday in a lawsuit that says it promoted a harmful product for use in clinics.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Nieltge Gedney, a Shepherdstown resident, has been advocating for others her whole life, but when doctors told her she had less than a year to live, Gedney knew if she didn't advocate for health, she'd run the risk of being "treated" like everyone else.

Twenty-six million Americans suffer from kidney disease — that's one in 10 — and West Virginia has the highest per capita rate in the country of patients with kidney failure starting dialysis.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The international medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders is warning that thousands of Yemeni patients in need of dialysis face a life-threatening satiation after their treatment centers have been pushed to a "breaking point" because of the ongoing conflict.

The group, also known by its French acronym MSF, said on Tuesday that Yemeni dialysis centers are struggling with supplies amid import restrictions imposed by the Saudi-led coalition battling...

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff has opened its own dialysis unit after clashing with two outside providers earlier this year.

Hospital spokeswoman Joanne Krieg says the new dialysis unit opened earlier this week after two specialists were hired to oversee it.

Earlier this spring the hospital sued two dialysis providers after they moved to end their contracts early. The hospital later settled with Renal Treatment Center and...