By Deborah Pelaez, aakpRENALIFE Independent WriterDuane and Lisa Hawk are a fun-loving, energetic married couple from Palmerton, Pennsylvania, who were both born blind. Married now for 38 years, they met at piano tuning school in their early 20s.
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A Healthy Start for a New Year
By Corinne Clynes, FNPWelcome to the New Year of 2022! The best thing about the New Year is it gives us all a clean slate to start from. I challenge you to think about your goals, inspirations, and desires for the New Year. Start by considering different areas of your life that you may want to set a goal for.
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AAKP Innovator Series: Robert A. Montgomery, MD, DPhil, FACS
AAKP’s Innovator Series highlights companies, researchers, and professionals in the field of nephrology committed to making a difference, improving care, and changing the status quo. In AAKP’s latest Innovator Series article, Dr.
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Six Tips on Holiday Eating From The Cooking Doc for People With Kidney Disease
By Blake Shusterman, MD, “The Cooking Doc”If you have kidney disease, eating at holiday parties and family meals can be challenging.
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AAKP Innovator Series: Humacyte with Juliana Blum, PhD, and Mauricio A. Berdugo, MD, MPH
AAKP’s Innovator Series highlights companies, researchers, and professionals in the field of nephrology committed to making a difference, improving care, and changing the status quo. In this Innovator article, AAKP features Humacyte. Humacyte was also featured in aakpRENALIFE in March 2018: https://bit.ly/Humacyte2018.Humacyte, Inc.
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Patient Profile: Adam Akers, AAKP Ambassador, U.S. Army National Guard Veteran
In 2001, Adam Akers was a young and active 29-year-old living in rural Iowa on an 80-acre farm. He worked as a laborer in construction full-time and was active in the Iowa Army National Guard. Married with two children, he had a small grain farm, raised pigs, and kept himself in good shape.
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Patient Profile: Orlando Torres, AAKP Global Ambassador
In 1988, at the age of 33, Orlando Torres became proactive about his kidney health because of his father’s diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD). He started to see a nephrologist and get lab work to monitor his kidney health annually.
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Quality Healthcare at Home: A Look at Telehealth Today
Janice Lea, MD, MSc, FASN, AAKP Executive Committee MemberThe COVID-19 pandemic incited ‘explosive growth’ in telehealth, but questions remain about how long it will be sustained.
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What Kidney Patients Need to Know this Flu Season
Stephen Fadem, MD, FACP, FASN, AAKP Medical Advisory Board ChairThe influenza, more commonly known as the “flu,” is a virus that mostly affects the respiratory tract. It is transmitted by tiny droplets of moisture from person to person through coughing, sneezing, or even talking.
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AAKP Innovator Series: BD
An Innovative Breakthrough: Minimally Invasive AV Fistula Creation Option for Hemodialysis PatientsLearn more about endoAVF and how it compares to the standard surgical arteriovenous (AV) fistula creation.
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