By Suzanne Ruff Within families who battle kidney disease as my family does, there is a time for sorrow and a time for joy, a time for weeping and a time for dancing. For many of my family members with complete renal failure, organ donation is their only hope.
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AAKP strives for change by promoting and celebrating the importance of kidney health for patients across the country. This blog will allow you to connect with experts, researchers, staff and volunteers surrounding our ongoing advocacy for healthy kidneys.
Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health As Delivered at the AAKP 3rd Annual National Policy Summit
By Jennifer Jones, U.S.M.C., AAKP Board of Director, AAKP Ambassador I want to thank AAKP for graciously extending the opportunity for me to share my perspective as a kidney disease patient on the Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative for our 3rd Annual Policy Summit.
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I am a Kidney Voter. Are You?
By Dale Rogers It was thirty-nine years ago that I noticed politics for the first time. I got home from school on March 30, turned on the T.V. and was witness to the chaotic aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
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2020 AND KIDNEY VOTERS – AAKP MEMBERS FLEX GROWING MUSCLE
The Connection Between Psoriasis and Kidney Disease
by Jim Myers There is a connection between psoriasis and kidney disease. I have always had dry skin. When I was a child, I was diagnosed with 'granulated eyelids and dandruff. I was diagnosed with kidney disease at the age of 25. In my 40's I was diagnosed with Psoriasis. I have struggled with psoriasis ever since.
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AAKP Innovator Series: Dr. Ray Harris
You are very well known across the larger kidney community for leadership, medical expertise, and respect for patient insights. For AAKP readers, can you tell us how patients have informed your view of medicine, and your role as a thought leader in kidney medicine and kidney innovation?
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Why is Being a Dialysis Technician Important to Me?
AAKP is celebrating National Dialysis Technician Recognition Week October 12 – 17, 2020. This year, we asked National Association of Nephrology Technicians/Technologists to ask technicians why being a dialysis technician is important to them. "Being a Dialysis Technician means so much to me than just putting a person on a machine.
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Dialysis Technicians – an Important Part of your Health Care Team
AAKP is celebrating National Dialysis Technician Recognition Week October 12 – 18, 2020. Let’s learn more about the types of dialysis technicians, how they are educated to better help you throughout your care and how you can celebrate this week with YOUR special dialysis technician. Kidney Disease by the Numbers:
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What’s Going on with my Drug Discount Card?
By Jim Myers Introduction There is a new rule on Co-Pay Accumulators that could affect the way you use your drug discount cards, and it may be one of the best kept secrets in the United States.
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The FDA Patient & Caregiver Connection: Impacting Innovations in Patient Care and Treatment
As an extension of AAKP’s National Strategy, AAKP participates in key initiatives that allow us to engage kidney patients in substantive and meaningful efforts designed to impact research over the long-term and help lead to new innovations for medical devices (including diagnostics)
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