Comfort and Joy Without Regrets!
The Holiday season should be an enjoyable time for most people. But for those of us with kidney disease, it can be very difficult, considering all of the food and drink temptations available at that time of the year!

Pass on the potatoes: Surviving the holidays on a low-potassium diet!
Many kidney patients must follow a low-potassium diet, and this is especially difficult over the holidays. If you've been told you need to limit your potassium, you might find the holiday season a difficult time....

Time to take a break from home cooking?
Dining away from home should be fun, but restaurant menus rarely list the ingredients contained in their food items, making it a challenge for people who have to follow special diets...

Think Green with Herbs
Whether you plant your own herb garden or pick them up at the grocery or farmers’ market, fresh herbs have the power to transform ORDINARY meals into GREAT meals...

Spice Up Your Cooking
With Wine
Think of wine as a great ingredient you can use for cooking ! Unlike salt, wine is a flavour enhancer that you don’t have to avoid...

Fail-Proof Pastry
Cut shortening into flour and baking powder mix until it resembles coarse meal, then add water and egg mixture all at once...

As Ed Strudwick's nephrologist for every day of his remarkable 39 years and nine months on dialysis (Renal & Urology News, "The Hemodialysis Marathon Man," October 2007) until his recent death from septicemia at age 71, I would like to revisit some of the valuable lessons that this experience has reinforced for me. Remind your dialysis patients that compliance is key. Ed's longevity was due to his full compliance with diet, medicine, scheduling, and follow-up...

A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit to go ahead against Campbell Soup Co, the world's largest soup-maker, over whether its purported "low-sodium" tomato soup really has less sodium. Four New Jersey women had sued the company last year, contending they were misled into paying more for the "low sodium" brand. They say it had almost as much sodium as Campbell's regular tomato soup...

University of California, San Francisco, researchers have unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney, which they say could one day eliminate the need for dialysis. The device includes thousands of microscopic filters as well as a bioreactor to mimic the metabolic and water-balancing roles of a real kidney. It is being developed in a collaborative effort by engineers...

When kidney patients begin to look at treatment options they have a lot of choices. While not all treatment options are right for everyone, choices include transplantation, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. If patients choose dialysis as their form of treatment, they next need to consider if they want to receive these treatments in a dialysis facility or at home. Although home dialysis regimens are considered "self-care" procedures that can be preformed fairly independently, patients often need the help and support of family members or friends...