by Sydney Johnston | May 6, 2020 | Education, Staying Healthy
Published May 5, 2020 | With a crisis like the ongoing pandemic, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by stress. So what should you do to manage stress during a pandemic? In the PKD Foundation’s new webcast series, we asked Rogosin Institute’s Director of Behavioral...
by Sydney Johnston | May 1, 2020 | Education, Staying Healthy
Kidneys are instrumental in maintaining the proper balance of nutrients in your body. They filter waste products and extra water from the blood, and they balance salts and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and potassium circulating in the blood. Every...
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Awareness, Education
Published April 22, 2020. Taking place April 19–25, 2020, National Volunteer Week honors volunteers for the irreplaceable impact their time and energy make on organizations like the PKD Foundation. Our supporters mean everything to us. In 2019, nearly 2,000...
by admin | Mar 27, 2020 | Awareness, Education, Q and A
Published March 27, 2020. With COVID-19 making headlines on a daily basis, people across the globe are left wondering how to decrease their level of risk. Mitigating exposure and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is especially top of mind for those with serious chronic...
by admin | Feb 25, 2020 | Awareness, Education, Q and A, Research
Published Feb. 25, 2020 Ian Smyth, Ph.D. | Monash University, Australia PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research? Ian: By chance and happenstance. I have a background in developmental biology (with a dash of human genetics) and our...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Feb 18, 2020 | Awareness, Education, Q and A, Research
Published Feb. 18, 2020 Oliver Wessely, Ph.D. | Cleveland Clinic/Case Western Reserve University PKD Foundation (PKDF): How did you first get involved in PKD research? Oliver: By serendipity. I was studying a gene involved in early embryonic development in...
