When Rev. Ken Chambers, Sr. first received news from his doctor that he may need to go on dialysis, it felt like a knot in his...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Peer research says that 86 percent of consumers get their news online. I go deeper and say that they get it from Twitter...
AFRO NEWS — Mott was shocked. “Within two years from the diagnosis, you have to have a transplant or dialysis. If you do nothing you could...
THE AFRO — Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an often-preventable condition that can go undetected until it becomes life-threatening.
Lindsey Tanner, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — A racial gap in kidney transplants appears to have closed, a 13-year study found. Rates of such transplants...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Doctors in Italy have designed a miniature dialysis machine for babies, used for the first time last year...
[New York Times] Federal researchers on Wednesday reported the first broad national picture of progress against some of the most devastating complications of diabetes, which affects...
Keeping your blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol in check reduces the risk of developing kidney disease or kidney failure by Sandra Jordan Special to the...
by William Covington Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly “We do not defeat death with a transplant; rather, we gain an extension of life. So the...
