by PKD Foundation Staff | May 24, 2018 | PKD Will Not Beat Me
Last week, my mom, Pam, faced her fear and flew alone for the first time, from Pennsylvania to California, to be with me for Mother’s Day. In celebration of her turning 62 this month and Mother’s Day, I wanted to do a special Q&A with her. I sat down with my mom,...
by PKD Foundation Staff | May 22, 2018 | Education, Staying Healthy
Our Director of Community Engagement and PKD patient, Nicole Harr, weighs in with her experience with hypertension and best practices for managing blood pressure: “Blood pressure is a measurement of the force of the blood as it flows through the body. The pressure...
by PKD Foundation Staff | May 16, 2018 | Education
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated the requirements for the Nutrition Facts label. These changes are based on new data about what constitutes a healthy diet—something all PKD patients know about. In recent years, Americans have become more focused...
by PKD Foundation Staff | May 11, 2018 | Research
This Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating moms and major milestones. We reached out to Jullie Hoggan, who took part in the clinical trials that led to the approval of tolvaptan, to learn more about what having this treatment means to her and her family: The day I became a...
by PKD Foundation Staff | May 9, 2018 | Research
The announcement of our first FDA-approved treatment for ADPKD is not only a major success for PKD patients, but also for nephrologists who have spent decades caring for their health. We reached out recently to Vicente Torres, M.D., Ph.D., of the Mayo Clinic...
