Patient Lifestyle Meetings Coming Your Way!
The next Patient Lifestyle Meeting of 2009 will be in Davenport, Iowa on
Sunday, July 12 2009!
Click here to download registration flyer, register online and view
the list of other meetings to come. Other cities in the coming months:
Denver, Colorado, Glendale, California, Little Rock, Arkansas...more
Adequate or Optimal Dialysis?
A frequent term that is used in the dialysis
industry is adequate dialysis. Lori and Stephen talk to Dr. Raffi Minasian on
how the industry is recognizing that patients need more dialysis to feel better
and improve their quality of life. Dr. Minasian explains some of the benefits of
more dialysis and the barriers health care professionals encounter to be able to
deliver optimal dialysis to their patients.
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Interview with Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult was our guest on the very first
KidneyTalk show, which was recorded on June 6, 2006. Three years later
and with the opening of the movie My Sister's Keeper, you can listen to
Jodi Picoult talk about her journey in writing the book.
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The 2009 KidneyTimes.com Essay Contest
Has Now Begun!
This year's theme is "What Helps You Live a Joyful Life in Spite of
Kidney Disease?" The first prize is $500! All entries must be
postmarked by August 31, 2009.
Read contest rules here.
Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant
Patients Act of 2009
(H.R. 1458 and S. 565)
Click here
to download quick information sheet
...provide continued entitlement to coverage for immunosuppressive drugs
furnished to beneficiaries under the Medicare Program that have received
a kidney transplant and whose entitlement to coverage would otherwise
expire...learn
more
 Letter to President Barack Obama and
Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
(The Ten Point Plan: Renal Patient’s View on Healthcare Reform for
People with Chronic Kidney Disease)
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