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 29, 2019 | ADPKD, ARPKD, Education
On May 3–5, parents of children with ARPKD and ADPKD gathered in Chicago, Illinois, for the PKD in Children conference. The event is a destination for parents to receive essential information on managing a child’s health when they live with PKD. What did attendees...
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 | May 2, 2019 | Awareness, Education
If you follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn), we hope you’ve already heard about our exciting new partnership with Discovery Communications / Discovery en Español. Knowing how important it is to share information about polycystic kidney...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 22, 2019 | Awareness, Education
For this week of National Kidney Month, our challenge to you was to tell someone new! Spreading the word is an empowering thing you can do for the community, no matter how PKD affects you. To show this, we asked our Marketing Specialist, Tierra Hogan, a non-patient,...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 7, 2019 | ADPKD, ARPKD, Education
We’re only a couple months out from the 2019 PKD in Children Conference, and if you’re a PKD parent, this is a can’t-miss event! Join us in Chicago from May 3 to 5 for an amazing opportunity to learn essential information on how to manage your...