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John and Tracey Previti on the beach with blue text overlay, "'I just wanted to make him feel better': Tracey Previti shares how she donated a kidney to her now-husband with help from AKF's Living Donor Assistance Program"

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'I just wanted to make him feel better': Tracey Previti shares how she donated a kidney to her now-husband with help from AKF's Living Donor Assistance Program

Tracey Previti surprised her husband John - and herself - when she offered to donate her kidney to him

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Tackling racial and ethnic disparities in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

Significant disparities driven in part by socioeconomic and geographic factors and barriers to health care exist in the progression of ADPKD, access to treatmen...

Silhouettes of family holding hand with stethoscope and heart with blue text overlay, "Fabry family connection: 10 facts about Fabry disease, a rare disorder that runs in families"

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Fabry family connection: 10 facts about Fabry disease, a rare disorder that runs in families

April is Fabry Awareness Month, a chance to raise awareness about this rare genetic form of kidney disease. To help you and your family better understand how it...

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AKF presents posters on IgA nephropathy focus group study and Know Your Kidneys® Numbers Tool at 2025 Spring Clinical Meetings

AKF presented two posters at the National Kidney Foundation's Spring Clinical Meetings held on April 10-13 in Boston

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'Just a little plain country girl can change the world': Towana Looney helps break new ground as the longest-living person with a gene-edited pig kidney

Towana Looney shares her experience receiving a gene-edited pig kidney

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'We go through a lot': Life with a rare kidney disease

Thelma Barber, Michelle Farley and Malkia White share what it is like living with a rare kidney disease

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'I just wanted to make him feel better': Tracey Previti shares how she donated a kidney to her now-husband with help from AKF's Living Donor Assistance Program

Tackling racial and ethnic disparities in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

Fabry family connection: 10 facts about Fabry disease, a rare disorder that runs in families

AKF presents posters on IgA nephropathy focus group study and Know Your Kidneys® Numbers Tool at 2025 Spring Clinical Meetings

When furniture shopping brings friendship and a second chance at life

A week of information, empowerment and community: AKF's 2025 Kidney Action Week®

Running for a reason: Why David Jacobs is doing his part to raise awareness (and funds) for kidney disease

'Just a little plain country girl can change the world': Towana Looney helps break new ground as the longest-living person with a gene-edited pig kidney

'We go through a lot': Life with a rare kidney disease