AAKP Policy Focus: Top Legislative Issues Impacting Your Life
School Days: An Interview
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TOP USA KIDNEY PATIENT MEETING LANDS ON CAPITOL HILL
Richard Knight, AAKP President and a kidney transplant recipient, stated “If you are a kidney patient or the loved one of a kidney patient anywhere; this event is a unique opportunity to listen, meet and talk to some of the top experts in America about kidney disease prevention, transplantation, and dialysis care. It’s also an opportunity to be part of history as AAKP will highlight the goals of the recently announced Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health and share how patients can and should play a role in the long-term success of this milestone initiative.”
August 14 is Global Yoga Therapy Day
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Nutrition Article: Quenching your thirst for the “good life ”
A Connection You Should Know About – Heart and Kidney Disease
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: Doris Harrison, RN CKD/Transplant Specialist
AAKP LEADERSHIP STATEMENT: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND ADVANCING THE AMERICAN KIDNEY HEALTH INITIATIVE
Today’s announcement on Advancing the American Kidney Health Initiative is smart policy that benefits patients and taxpayers alike and marks the start of what AAKP has termed The Decade of the Kidney – an era that will be remembered for kidney precision medicine, greater access to kidney transplantation and less organ discards, the first artificial implantable kidneys and a departure from the default reliance on burdensome and highly antiquated in-center kidney dialysis care