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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.

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.

By Blake Shusterman, MD, “The Cooking Doc”If you have kidney disease, eating at holiday parties and family meals can be challenging.

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.

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.

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.

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.

By Jennifer Gander, PhD, MSPH, Kaiser Permanente Georgia For people with kidney disease, physical activity and exercise have been found to improve quality of life, physical function, and nutritional parameters (i.e. albumin), and decrease the risk of death.