by PKD Foundation Staff | Jun 4, 2019 | ADPKD Registry, Advocacy, Awareness, Education, Q and A
Published June 4, 2019 In May we announced the upcoming ADPKD Patient Registry, a collection of individuals with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD). This month, we sat down with Elise Hoover, Director of Research at the PKD Foundation (PKDF), to...
by PKD Foundation Staff | May 22, 2019 | Advocacy
On April 23, several of us from the PKD Foundation (PKDF) met with our colleagues from the National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in Bethesda, Maryland. NIDDK, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducts and supports...
by PKD Foundation Staff | May 14, 2019 | ADPKD Registry, Advocacy, Awareness, Education
Published May 14, 2019 PKD patients are very well-informed about their disease and its consequences. As a disease impacting multiple generations or appearing unexpectedly as a spontaneous mutation, patients and their families witness first-hand the progression of the...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Advocacy
As Kidney Month starts winding down, keep up the momentum by raising your voice for PKD! Both the House and Senate will leave Washington, D.C. from April 15-26, 2019, and many will be back in their hometowns. Except for the Passover/Easter weekend (April 19-22), many...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 4, 2019 | Advocacy, Awareness, Education
This past week, 450 rare disease advocates and patients descended on Washington, D.C., for Rare Disease Week, and I was glad to be amongst them. It was a packed agenda with four days of activities and awareness opportunities and I’d like to share the highlights:...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Jan 17, 2019 | Advocacy, Voices of PKD
My name is Jim Myers. I have been fighting PKD/kidney disease for nearly 40 years. I currently live in Hammond, Ind. My mother and father ran a couple of grocery stores in my hometown, Cedar Lake, Ind. My dad was afflicted with polycystic kidney disease. On his side...
