Sidhvi Nekkanti

By Rebecca Hiers, Registered Dietitian Balancing 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.

By Deborah Pelaez, Marketing and Communications Manager; Managing Editor of aakpRENALIFE If 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.

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.

By Stephen Z. Fadem; MD; FASN; FACP; Clinical Professor, Baylor College of Medicine; Chairman, AAKP Medical Advisory Board Chronic 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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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!

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 Affairs It 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!