Iya Bekondo Interview
A story of love, life and giving: Iya Bekondo and The Iya Project. A Sister in Germany Interview At this time of the year when we celebrate women in accordance with 8th March, International Women's ...
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Fish Fridays Campaign to Raise Kidney Disease Awareness
Fish Fridays Campaign is a campaign launched in March 2011 to Raise Awareness of Kidney Disease and Organ Donation, and to raise funds that benefit low income end stage renal disease patients. Hundreds of people ...
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RenalNews: Tips on How to Make Dialysis Treatments More Comfortable
Healthy kidneys remove waste products from blood. When kidneys fail, patients need dialysis treatments three times a week for three-four hour sessions to cleanse their blood. The body temperature of many dialysis patients drops while ...
Read moreRenalNews: Possible Reasons Why Dialysis Centers are cold?
Healthy kidneys remove waste products from blood. When kidneys fail, patients need dialysis treatments three times a week for three-four hour sessions to cleanse their blood. Reasons such as season change, lack of warm attire, ...
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Presentation at the Press Conference Club in Washington DC
view gallery On August 13, 2014, The Iya Foundation was present at the Press Conference Club in Washington DC, where Founder, Iya Bekondo-Granatella spoke about her personal story in dealing with Chronic Kidney Disease and Eventual ...
Read moreRenalNews: Common Habits That Damage the Kidney
Not drinking enough water Consuming too much salt Not emptying your bladder early Not treating common infections quickly and properly Consuming too much protein Painkiller abuse Drinking too much alcohol Not resting enough Not managing ...
Read moreRenalNews: Reasons to Get Tested For Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic Kidney disease (CKD) is indeed a silent killer that creeps on you and most patients are unaware of it, until they are being rushed to the hospital; most often having to start dialysis treatment ...
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Are You at Risk for Chronic Kidney Disease? Take the Iya Foundation’s CKD Quiz
Medical History Do you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes? Yes No Do you have high blood pressure? Yes No Does a close family member have kidney disease? Yes No Were you a preemie? ...
Read moreRenalNews: Cytomegalovirus Infection and Its Link to Post Transplant Recipients
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the most infectious complications that occur in kidney transplant recipients, as well as a significant cause of severe and occasionally life-threatening disease and death; causing approximately 30 – 75% of ...
Read moreRenalNews: Strep Throat and Kidney Damage – Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis (GN)
Strep throat is an infection in the throat and tonsils that causes pharyngitis, which is a sore throat accompanied with discomfort, pain, or scratchiness; usually making it hard to swallow. Group A Streptococcus bacteria is ...
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