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https://www.kidney.org/newsletter/meal-prepping-kidney-disease-101

Meal Prepping 101 for Kidney Disease There's a reason why subscription meal boxes are so popular right now. They're easy, foolproof ways to get a meal on the plate without much planning. However, they can get quite pricy and may not align with a kidney disease diet. So, skip the subscription and make mealtime easier by preparing your f...

http://baytownsun.com/coronavirus/article_2673f6a3-bb11-5093-a2df-b1b3e5e19460.html

World’s First Patient Starts Using Outset Medical’s Tablo Dialysis System at Home SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 13, 2020--

Have you had any telehealth visits? What did you think?
https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/cms-proposes-to-boost-telehealth-use-in-home-dialysis-programs

CMS Proposes to Boost Telehealth Use in Home Dialysis Programs CMS is throwing support behind telehealth and mHealth as a means of expanding dialysis treatment to the home for people living with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

Choosing whether to accept an avaiilable kidney...
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200717/Including-patients-preferences-in-kidney-allocation-system-could-improve-outcomes.aspx

Including patients' preferences in kidney allocation system could improve outcomes From the moment a kidney becomes available, there are just 24 hours to identify the recipient and carry out the transplant.

What should I eat if I'm starting Dialysis?
https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/dietary_hemodialysis

Dietary Guidelines for Adults Starting on Hemodialysis Now that you are beginning hemodialysis, there may be many changes in your daily life. Your doctor has probably told you that you may need to make some changes in your diet. How well you feel will depend on: Eating the right kind and amounts of food. Having the hemodialysis treatments your health pr...

https://www.kidney.org/newsletter/3-celebrities-who-wont-let-kidney-disease-win

3 Celebrities Who Won't Let Kidney Disease Win Even with 37 million Americans facing chronic kidney disease and millions more living with related ailments, it can sometimes be difficult to put a “face” to the disease. The truth is, kidney disease has many forms and even more faces. From the transplant recipient to the dialysis patient to the...

Dialysis patient friendly recipes!
https://www.freseniuskidneycare.com/eating-well/recipes/dinners

Dinner Ideas for Dialysis Diet Delicious dinner ideas, renal diet recipes, and dinner meal plans to support your kidney-friendly and dialysis diet.

https://www.kidneynews.org/kidney-news/features/the-future-of-kidney-transplantation

The Future of Kidney Transplantation | Kidney News

We all could use some good news!
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/03/416871/experts-shine-light-kidney-disease-share-hopes-future

Experts Shine Light on Kidney Disease, Share Hopes for the Future We asked a team of UCSF kidney experts – including nephrologist, a transplant surgeon, a transplant pharmacist and a bioengineer – to shine a light on the problem of kidney disease and share their hopes for the future.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-universal-donor-kidney-bioengineered-implant.html

Universal donor kidney: Bioengineered implant one day may replace dialysis Kidney failure affects 700,000 Americans and two million people worldwide. Treatment is severely limited by a scarcity of donor organs and the burden and expense of recurring dialysis.

https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/congresswoman-wilson-advocates-for-dialysis-patients/article_ed849abc-8fa6-11ea-abc0-632143b27c79.html

Congresswoman Wilson advocates for dialysis patients Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson followed through with her commitment to advocate for the 40,000 Floridians currently living with end-stage renal disease who are further at a heightened risk for severe

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/organ-donations-get-wasted-every-year-s-killing-people-me-ncna1213401

Opinion | Organ donations get wasted every year. That's killing people like me. Many of the government contractors responsible for getting organs to transplant recipients are failing on a very basic level.

How Do you feel after dialysis?

https://www.westsideseattle.com/robinson-papers/2020/03/16/chuck-bowden-keeps-going-and-deals-daily-kidney-disease

Chuck Bowden keeps on going and deals daily with kidney disease | Westside Seattle Chuck Bowden is a regular at the West Seattle Senior Center of the Stop ’N Thrift store. Photo by C.B. Bell Mon, 03/16/2020 By Cynthia Flash Chuck Bowden is like the Energizer Bunny – he just keeps going and going and going. After retiring as a technical writer and product planner from Fluke Cor...

https://www.kidney.org/newsletter/finding-community-isolation

Finding Community in Isolation It can be tough to stay positive in these challenging times, but I try to find even small things to be thankful for.

https://www.healio.com/primary-care/nephrology/news/online/%7Beb561c60-4644-41b9-bffa-cb6236cb2ba7%7D/significant-gaps-in-kidney-disease-care-worldwide

Significant gaps in kidney disease care worldwide There are vast interregional and intraregional differences in kidney care around the world, with significant gaps in care in both developed and developing countries, according to research recently published in JAMA.According to the researchers, the U.S. has a 14% prevalence rate of chronic kidney di...