A New Adventure Awaits

I hope everyone had a good holiday season. I am looking forward to a new year, and with it, a new adventure!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am grateful for my friends, family, and especially for my wife, who gave me the gifts of a kidney and our beautiful daughter!

Implantable Artificial Kidney Offers Economical Alternative To Dialysis And Organ Transplant: How It Works : LIFE : Tech Times

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/107100/20151117/implantable-artificial-kidney-offers-economical-alternative-to-dialysis-and-organ-transplant-how-it-works.htm

This is truly the future of Dialysis. This device will save lives. Personally, if/when my time comes, I would love to have one!

Paired exchange kidney transplant gives these newlyweds the gift of life

http://www.fredericksburg.com/features/health_living/newlyweds-give-and-get-gift-of-kidney/article_4f53d197-0490-55d8-baa7-41fbf32d67ae.html?mode=jqm

New $6.7 million project aims to help kidney dialysis patients live longer

New $6.7 million project aims to help kidney dialysis patients live longer - News-Medical.net

Dialysis News

News-Medical.net

New $6.7 million project aims to help kidney dialysis patients live longer News-Medical.net Helping kidney dialysis patients have healthier treatment sessions and longer lives is the goal of a new $6.7 million project at the University of Michigan. Tiffany Veinot, associate professor at the School of Information and School of Public Health ...

Original Article: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNFyKgFF_FTfwGzDTgWM0PuSBfbYsQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=XJ0fVuj3LoXr3QHn9YCwCA&url=http://www.news-medical.net/news/20151015/New-2467-million-project-aims-to-help-kidney-dialysis-patients-live-longer.aspx

Kidney Donors and Faith Communities

This video raises some great questions. Regardless of where you stand, kidney donation is an incredibly personal decision. How do you feel about faith-specific donations?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2015/10/09/october-9-2015-kidney-organ-donation/27429/

NJSP: Troopers whisk woman through pope crowds to kidney transplant

Woman gets "The Call" while waiting to see the Pope.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pope/NJSP-Quick-acting-troopers-whisk-woman-from-South-Jersey-to-kidney-transplant.html

Scientists Grow Fully Functional Kidneys From Stem Cells In Japanese Laboratory

Scientists Grow Fully Functional Kidneys From Stem Cells In Japanese Laboratory - The Inquisitr

Kidney News

The Inquisitr

Scientists Grow Fully Functional Kidneys From Stem Cells In Japanese Laboratory The Inquisitr Japanese researchers at the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo have conducted a series of experiments which culminated in the creation of laboratory-grown kidneys that function successfully when transplanted into a living breathing organism, ... Lab-grown kidneys shown to be fully functional in animal recipientsLifeboat Foundation (blog) all 3 news articles »

Original Article: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNEIbNYwAFtuKxf8i01EQYy9mQP8pw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778958527639&ei=s_wFVsjSMI3L3gGJ4IuQBg&url=http://www.inquisitr.com/2448303/scientists-grow-fully-functional-kidneys-from-stem-cells-in-japanese-laboratory/

Pownal woman gets creative in appeal for kidney

Pownal woman gets creative in appeal for kidney - Press Herald

Kidney News

Press Herald

Pownal woman gets creative in appeal for kidney Press Herald But Deming, who lives in Pownal, is looking for a kidney, not votes. The 63-year-old said her kidneys started failing two years ago. Doctors believe it's because she had been taken maximum-strength ibuprofen, an over-the-counter pain medication, for ...

Original Article: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNH5EHQWmNu4aq_MMkEzHExU_DIv4A&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=xIX-VfiNGMrS3gH1h40I&url=http://www.pressherald.com/2015/09/19/campaign-hinges-on-kidney-donation-not-vote/

Kidney recipient hopes for artificial organ

Kidney recipient hopes for artificial organ - MyStatesman.com

Kidney News

MyStatesman.com

Kidney recipient hopes for artificial organ MyStatesman.com Dialysis is supposed to be a relatively short-term treatment for people with serious kidney disease. Juliana Casey, 24, has been trying to wrest control of her life from the illness since she was 11. As of November, she'll have been on and off dialysis ...

Original Article: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNGS9E2zYo328dL7cmHdB8tGu67NQw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=hEX9VbioJMXapwe9p6y4AQ&url=http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/kidney-recipient-hopes-for-artificial-organ/nnhzD/

ATKG 2.0 Coming Soon!

I am excited to announce the resurrection of the Ask the Kidney Guy blog with an all-new rollout. I am hard at work coding a sleek new look for the sight as well as new content. Stay tuned!