Patient Worthy's award-winning podcast "Wait, How Do You Spell That? A Rare Disease Podcast" is back with a new episode. This week, Colby is sitting down with Valen Keefer, a…
Actress Francia Raisa is well-known for her roles in Grown-Ish, Bring It On: All Or Nothing, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and How I Met Your Father. She’s…
When Christine Todd learned that her kidneys were failing, she was frightened and concerned. Todd has polycystic kidney disease (PKD), an inherited condition characterized by cysts that develop in the…
Growing up, Will Kleemeier learned all about polycystic kidney disease (PKD). He had several family members with PKD, so he knew that there was a chance that he too…
Welcome to Study of the Week from Patient Worthy. In this segment, we select a study we posted about from the previous week that we think is of particular interest…
A few years ago, Dr. Thomas Weimbs, a researcher at the Weimbs Lab of UC Santa Barbara, performed a study on mice models of polycystic kidney disease (PKD). During…
According to a recent article, scientists were able to create cilia-free stem cells that may help in finding the causes of cilia-linked illnesses such as polycystic kidney disease. …
Welcome to Study of the Week from Patient Worthy. In this segment, we select a study we posted about from the previous week that we think is of particular interest…
According to a news article published by the Yale School of Medicine, Yale University researchers recently determined that autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) could potentially be reversed. Head researcher…
Evotec SE and Chinook Therapeutics have entered into a strategic partnership in an effort to find, create, and develop viable treatments for those living with chronic kidney diseases. Under the…
In a recent press release, biopharmaceutical company Regulus Therapeutics, Inc. announced that their drug candidate, RGLS4326, received Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease…
By Danielle Bradshaw from In The Cloud Copy Bill Bradford has made helping others a lifelong habit, but now this veteran and former paramedic needs the help of others to…
By Rachel Whetstone from In The Cloud Copy Peggy Nipper was struggling with polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Her kidneys were beginning to fail after developing numerous cysts. It can often…
By Rachel Whetstone from In The Cloud Copy Shelly Wheaton began a car sign campaign in September to look for a live kidney donor. She was on dialysis because…
According to a story from news-medical.net, a team of researchers have developed a potential new treatment for polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a rare disorder that ultimately causes organ failure. The…
Attitude as defined in the dictionary: “A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person’s behavior.” In my opinion, how…
Living with PKD has been a constant struggle for me but for you to better understand my story, I’m going to start from the beginning when I was first diagnosed.…
A married couple from Grimsby in England are planning to undergo kidney transplant surgery. Paula will donate her kidney to her husband Kevin, who has polycystic kidney disease. The original…
An ongoing study is investigating how water intake could help treat autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, says a recent report. Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common…
Long have these cold-blooded, no-limbed reptiles bore a bad reputation; from the Bible to Disney to Indiana Jones. But are things about to change? According to a new French study…
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