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Q&A with Mariana Murea, MD, TwoPlus Study Principal InvestigatorTell us about your first experience with a kidney patient, personally or professionally, and what impressions that left on you as a fellow human being? One of my most impactful experiences was with a patient receiving hemodialysis treatment in the hospital.

Eight-year-old Ayla Maher and her 5-year-old brother Otto Maher are recipients of an AAKP Cystinosis Scholarship. They are using the funds to attend Mass Audubon’s Nature Camp.Ayla Maher was diagnosed with cystinosis when she was just two and a half years old.

Redsense Medical is a corporate group with operations mainly in Europe and the United States. The company has developed the Redsense System, an innovation used for monitoring and alarming in the case of venous blood leakage in connection with a hemodialysis treatment.

By Annamarie Rodriguez, RDN, LD, FANDThere is a lot of buzz around ‘plant-based’ nutrition, and the term ‘plant-based’ has evolved over the past few years; however, one thing for certain is that there is no strict definition. Plant-based nutrition can embrace the DASH (dietary approach to stop hypertension)

By Deborah Pelaez, aakpRENALIFE Independent WriterFrom the time he was young, Rick Daynes knew that his O negative blood type could help people. His mother and father also had O negative blood, and his mother always said, “Give blood whenever you can. God blessed you with a gift that you can give to anyone.