By Kent Bressler, AAKP BOD/Ambassador, Kidney Transplant RecipientThe old adage, which came first the chicken or the egg, kind of explains how it is with gout. Do you get gout from kidney disease or can kidney disease cause gout?
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Sidhvi Nekkanti
Doctors Flummoxed By Long-Term Organ Damage In COVID-19 Survivors
Talking Points Memo (TPM)By Josh KovenskyWe still don’t know how much we don’t know about COVID-19.The immediate effects of the disease are devastating.But what has confronted doctors and patients alike since American hospitals began to fill up in March has been another, deeply sobering prospect:
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Patient Organizations Engage on All Levels of COVID-19 Advocacy and Education
ASN KidneyNewsBy Eric SeaborgLike every corner of the medical community, kidney patient advocacy groups have mobilized in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Food and Finances: Tips on how to eat well while following a diet for all stages of Chronic kidney disease
By Rebecca Hiers, Registered DietitianBalancing life, chronic kidney disease, other medical issues, a new way of eating and your finances can be a daunting task. At times it can certainly seem impossible! However, it doesn’t have to be a challenge.
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A Kidney Warrior’s Experience with Nocturnal Dialysis
By Deborah Pelaez, Marketing and Communications Manager; Managing Editor of aakpRENALIFEIf you have been involved with AAKP for a while and attended any of our events, you may have met AAKP Ambassador (and former Board of Directors member) Dave White.
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AAKP Innovator Series: Mike McCormick Osprey Medical President & CEO
Osprey’s mission is to improve outcomes in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) by reducing contrast induced Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), and lowering hospital costs. Patients with AKI experience long term and costly side effects from this disease.
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Ask the Doc: Exercise in Chronic Kidney Disease and the Elderly
By Stephen Z. Fadem; MD; FASN; FACP; Clinical Professor, Baylor College of Medicine; Chairman, AAKP Medical Advisory BoardChronic kidney disease is a progressive condition that leads to a decreased muscle mass and weakness. Often patients became sedentary, but this only worsens the problems related to their disease.
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2020 AND KIDNEY VOTERS – AAKP MEMBERS FLEX GROWING MUSCLE
Patient Profile: Gabriella Nelson & Angela Clayton
By Deborah Pelaez, AAKP Marketing and Communications Manager Gabriella Nelson is a healthy 3-year-old, happy and full of
life. If you met her, you would never know by looking at her all that she has
been through. You would never guess this beautiful young girl has a kidney
transplant!
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THE DECADE OF THE KIDNEY™ – WILL YOU ANSWER THE CALL?
By Edward V. Hickey III, AAKP Board of Director, Secretary and Chair of Veterans Health Initiative, and Paul T. Conway, AAKP Board of Director, Chair, Policy & Global AffairsIt is not every day that you, as a patient advocate, are
asked to make and engage in a 10 year commitment – but today is the day!
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