Kidney Today from the American Kidney Fund brings you voices from the fight against kidney disease—patients, their loved ones, renal professionals and many others.
The drinks you choose to quench your thirst can have a big impact on your kidney health? Dr. Blake Shusterman, a Kidney Kitchen® contributor known as The Cooking Doc®, shared his top 5 drinks for people with kidney disease on our blog. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Kidney Kitchen, Healthy living, Nutrition, Healthy eating
This month, the American Kidney Fund (AKF) is putting a spotlight on Fabry disease. While doctors once thought that only men could get Fabry disease, we now know this is not true. Women can get Fabry disease too. In fact, more women have Fabry disease than men. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Rare disease, Education, Healthy living
The FDA's treatment approval of Oxlumo™ (lumasiran) by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is the first therapy for people with the rare genetic disease primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1). Learn more about the drug approval on our blog. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: News, Research
AKF Ambassador Ken Sutha is a pediatric nephrologist and two-time kidney transplant recipient. He also received some of the earliest doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Learn more about his experience and how he views the vaccine as a patient and health care provider. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Coronavirus, Covid-19, AKF Ambassador, Kidney transplant
As a nephrologist, food lover, cook and Kidney Kitchen® contributor, Dr. Blake Shusterman knows that choosing the right foods can make a big difference in your kidney health. Read his top tips for how you can better manage your kidney disease through food on our blog. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Kidney Kitchen, Diet, Healthy eating, Nutrition, Healthy living
AKF Ambassador and radio host Elizabeth Kay is on a mission to donate her kidney so her mother-in-law can one through the paired exchange program. She updates her listeners about her journey on the air and says the support they've shown “has been overwhelming.” READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Living with kidney disease, Living Donor Protection Report Card, AKF Ambassador, Kidney transplant
To celebrate Heart Month, we spoke with AKF’s newest Kidney Kidney Kitchen®, NIH NHLBI's The Heart Truth program, and our friends NIDDK about how people with kidney disease can manage their heart health through food. Learn what they had to say on our blog. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Kidney Kitchen, Diet, Healthy eating, Healthy living
In 2008, Anthony DeGuilio donated his kidney to Barbara Asofsky, a woman he had never met, in the first paired organ exchange New York and the second ever in the U.S. The two met after the surgery and remained close friends until Anthony died of COVID-19 in December. Read Barbara's post honoring Anthony on our blog. READ MORE >>
TOPICS: Kidney transplant, Stories, Coronavirus, Covid-19
